Price tag of glaucoma care is minor compared with the total direct and indirect costs of glaucoma: Results from nationwide survey and register data

• Petri K. M. Purola ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Petri K. M. Purola, Joonas Taipale

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: petri.purola@tuni.fi

  Affiliations 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-8622

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• Joonas Taipale ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Petri K. M. Purola, Joonas Taipale

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4907-8146

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• Saku Väätäinen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ESiOR Oy, Kuopio, Finland

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• Mika Harju,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

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• Seppo V. P. Koskinen,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

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• Hannu M. T. Uusitalo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations 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

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