Some major examples of direct and direct non-medical costs
| Direct medical costs | Direct non-medical costs | |
| Inpatient hospital care | Care provided by friends and family | |
| Specialised hospital, terminal, or hospice care | Housekeeping Modifications to home for patient | |
| Nursing homes | Social services | |
| Institutional or home health care | Retraining | |
| Emergency rooms | Repair to property (ie, alcoholism, etc) | |
| Physician services Primary care physicians | Programme monitoring and evaluation | |
| Medical specialists | Law enforcement costs | |
| Other ancillary staff | Data analysis | |
| psychologists | ||
| social workers | ||
| physical and occupational therapists | ||
| nutritionists | ||
| volunteers | ||
| ambulance workers | ||
| Medication use | ||
| treating side effects | ||
| preparation of drugs | ||
| training in new procedures | ||
| dispensing and administration | ||
| monitoring | ||
| Overhead allocated to technology | ||
| fixed cost of utilities | ||
| space | ||
| storage | ||
| support services | ||
| capital costs (depreciated over time) | ||
| construction costs for facilities | ||
| relocation costs | ||
| device and equipment costs | ||
| Variable cost of utilities | ||
| Medication costs | ||
| prescription and non-prescription costs | ||
| drug costs | ||
| monitoring costs | ||
| Research and development costs | ||
| Diagnostic test costs | ||
| Treatment costs | ||
| Prevention costs | ||
| Rehabilitation costs | ||
| Training and education costs | ||
↵Adapted from A practical guide to prevention effectiveness: decision and economic analyses. Atlanta, GA: Center for Disease Control, 1993:103.