Joonas Taipale

1 INTRODUCTION Ageing populations, combined with continuously improving methods of diagnosing and treating various conditions, create an increasing need to understand the rising costs associated with diseases and functional limitations related to them. To effectively allocate limited health care resources and facilitate decision-making, robust estimates assessing the burden of diseases on patients and society are required.

Loading metrics In the Result subsection of the Abstract, there are errors in the paragraph. The correct paragraph is: The annual additional total direct costs were EUR 2,658/glaucoma patient, EUR 1,768/glaucoma patient with medication, and EUR 3,975/operated glaucoma patient compared with persons without glaucoma. The respective additional total indirect costs were EUR 4,035, EUR 3,054, and EUR 12,141 per year.

Hannu M. T. Uusitalo Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland Finnish Register of Visual Impairment, Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired, Helsinki, Finland Tays Eye Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland Search for more papers by this author