Costs needed for budget impact analysis

[rachaelmountain]

For the budget impact analysis it would be good to have costs on a yearly basis by the following subgroups:

• Total costs
• Case detection costs
• Hospitalisation costs
• Medication costs
• Maintenance costs

We discussed that some of these could potentially be worked out simply by multiplying unit cost by number events per year.

Priority: high

[rachaelmountain]

All the listed above can be worked out from existing output except for medication costs. Can we add an output for medication time by year?

[KateJohnson]

This is relevant to this issue: https://github.com/resplab/epicR/issues/117 and can be addressed together

[rachaelmountain]

Update followings today's meeting: can total cumulative cost be reported annually in output_ex?

[rachaelmountain]

I have sorted the above. I simply added a cumul_cost_prev_yr variable and did annual cost = cumul_cost - cumul_cost_prev_yr. The sum of the annual costs is equal to output.total_costs, which is good. However, it seems the costs are always inflated in the final year. I can't work out why this is. Are there potentially any costs that are getting counted twice?