Analysis of the Indirect Costs of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Romania

Table 4

The cost of unpaid work and indirect cost inducers in RA.

(1) the cost of unpaid work
(i) number of days of inability for daily activities	/cohort	4139 days
(ii) self-reported daily household of help activity		4 hours
(iii) cost of unpaid work (cost of lost wages) (€)	/patient/day	12.2
	/patient/year	253.74
	/cohort	50495.8
(2) characteristics of pensioners group (n=143)
loss of work productivity: retired due to RA		55 (38.5%)
mean age of retirement (y)		48 ± 5.3
sickness retirement after RA diagnosis (y)		5.7 ± 6.0
sickness retirement in the first year after RA diagnosis		12 (22%)