Accurate calculations of out-of-pocket costs for mental healthcare consultations.

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Australian Health Review Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1071/AH22294

Jeffrey C L Looi, Stephen J Robson

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Abstract

What is known about the topic? When assessing real growth in costs, it is important to adjust for inflation through indexation to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The change in prices or costs over time can be calculated in constant currency amounts by adjusting by a ratio of the CPI in the year of interest to the CPI in the baseline year. What does this paper add? Rosenberg et al. (2022) did not calculate out-of-pocket costs in constant currency, which does not give an accurate estimation of costs adjusted for inflation. What are the implications for practitioners? We calculated examples to illustrate the impact of such adjustments, which substantially impact the results of the study.

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心理健康咨询的自付费用的精确计算。

关于这个话题我们知道些什么?在评估成本的实际增长时，通过消费者价格指数(CPI)来调整通货膨胀是很重要的。价格或成本随时间的变化可以通过利息年的CPI与基准年的CPI的比率进行调整，以固定货币金额计算。这篇文章补充了什么?Rosenberg等人(2022)没有以固定汇率计算自付成本，这并不能准确估计经通胀调整后的成本。这对从业者意味着什么?我们计算了例子来说明这种调整的影响，这实质上影响了研究结果。

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Australian Health Review 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

5.60%

发文量

134

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

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