The Global Economic Cost of Osteoarthritis: How the UK Compares

Table 2

Author	Year of study	Country	Cost studied	Individual cost per annum (2010 £) per OA patient	Population; cost per annum; (2010 £)
McClean et al.	1993	USA	Direct costs	£1526	US $548 million
Lanes et al.	1994	USA	Direct costs	£496	N/A
Buckwater et al.	2000	USA	Indirect costs	N/A	£2 billion–£8 billion
Kotlartz et al.	2005	USA	Indirect costs	£355	£7.25 billion
Maetzel et al.	2000	Canada	Direct costs; Indirect costs	£3162; £1407	N/A; N/A
Gupta et al.	2002	Canada	Direct costs; Indirect costs	£1768; £9986	N/A; N/A
Loza et al.	2003	Spain	Direct costs; Indirect costs	£1292; £209	£4.04 billion; £654 million
Le Pen et al.	2003	France	Direct costs	£316	£1.58 billion
Leardini et al.	2001	Italy	Direct costs; Indirect costs	£ 981; £1299	N/A; N/A
Woo et al.	2001	Hong Kong	Direct costs; Indirect costs	£6561; £620	£323 million; (combined cost)
Xie et al.	2005	Singapore	Indirect costs	£610–£730	N/A