The health-related social costs of alcohol in Belgium

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Disease-specific unit costs (€) used for the estimation of alcohol-attributable general hospital costs

Disease	Unit cost (€)	Source
Acute pancreatitis	5698	[17, 18]
Alcohol abuse	4190	[17, 18]
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy	5714	[17, 18]
Alcoholic dependence syndrome	4251	[17, 18]
Alcoholic gastritis	4607	[17, 18]
Alcoholic liver disease/cirrhosis	8729	[17, 18]
Alcoholic polyneuropathy	5538	[17, 18]
Alcoholic psychosis	4246	[17, 18]
Breast cancer	4941	[17, 18]
Cardiac dysrhythmia	4883	[17, 18]
Degeneration of nervous system due to alcohol	9250	[17, 18]
Foetal alcohol syndrome	2070	[17, 18]
Haemorrhagic stroke	7369	[17, 18]
Heart failure	7261	[17, 18]
Hypertension	5918	[17, 18]
Laryngeal cancer	6880	[17, 18]
Lip, oral cavity, pharynx cancer	6832	[17, 18]
Liver cancer	9403	[17, 18]
Oesophageal cancer	7414	[17, 18]
Oesophageal varices	6614	[17, 18]
Pancreatic cancer	7601	[17, 18]
Psoriasis	5814	[17, 18]
Rectal cancer	7748	[17, 18]
Unipolar major depression	7349	[17, 18]
Epilepsy	3405	[17, 18]

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