CONCEPT-COSTS. Compendium of Healthcare Costs in Spain (CONCEPT-COSTS Database)

Technical notes and documentation

The Compendium of Healthcare Costs in Spain (CONCEPT-COSTS Database) is a database of Spanish healthcare unit costs estimated from different national sources.

Version 4.0 of the CONCEPT-COSTS Database contains costs estimates (expresed in EUR 2025) for a core set of service items commonly used in the chronic health problems evaluated in CONCEPT Project.

It is a living document planned to be regularly updated and expanded in terms of the covered service over time.

Aims of CONCEPT-COSTS project:

CONCEPT-COSTS is part of the coordinated CONCEPT Project, which comprises four subprojects whose objective is to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of care pathways (CP) in three chronic health problems of high prevalence and socioeconomic impact, which are diabetes mellitus type 2, breast cancer and ischemic stroke. As a common denominator, CONCEPT shares the innovative perspective of focusing its analysis on CP as a key determinant of healthcare adequacy, adherence to treatment, health outcomes and economic consequences. CONCEPT-COSTS' first objective is to complement the results produced by each CONCEPT clinical cohort, with a broad proposal of economic analyses based on real-world data (RWD), including incurred costs, avoidable costs and efficiency evaluation of identified CP. These results will be used to inform the clinical and management decisions about those CP to be promoted or avoided. As a second objective, CONCEPT-COSTS will identify the ethodological and logistical challenges faced by economic evaluations based on RWD, to develop a framework that will include recommendations for improvements related to feasibility, validity and transferability of results.

Files included in this publication:

• CONCEPT_COSTS_Database_v4.csv
• CONCEPT_COSTS_Database_v4.html
• Readme_v4.doc

What's new

• Costs updated to 2025
• New column: cost category
• New unit costs
• Some sources updated