Work productivity loss from depression: evidence from an employer survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

National working groups identify the need for return on investment research conducted from the purchaser perspective; however, the field has not developed standardized methods for measuring the basic components of return on investment, including costing out the value of work productivity loss due to illness. Recent literature is divided on whether the most commonly used method underestimates or overestimates this loss. The goal of this manuscript is to characterize between and within variation in the cost of work productivity loss from illness estimated by the most commonly used method and its two refinements.

Methods

One senior health benefit specialist from each of 325 companies employing 100+ workers completed a cross-sectional survey describing their company s

SUBMITTER: Rost KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4307989 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature