. Hospitalization/interventions (41%) and indirect costs (68.6%) were the major cost drivers for total direct costs and the overall … economic burden of lung cancer, respectively. Conclusions: Our findings indicate per patient direct medical costs of small cell … lung cancer in terms of both direct and indirect costs. Our findings indicate that hospitalization/interventions cost item …

, indirect costs, such as productivity losses due to absenteeism and presenteeism, were often underexplored in the reviewed … population. The economic burden of CM includes both direct healthcare costs and indirect costs resulting from productivity losses … key findings were extracted from the studies, and reported costs were converted to GBP for cross-country comparisons …