PECUNIA Reference Unit Costs Compendium (PECUNIA RUC Compendium)

The <strong>PECUNIA Reference Unit Costs Compendium (PECUNIA RUC Compendium)</strong> is a Microsoft Excel®-based multi-sectoral, multi-country database of unit costs comparable across countries and sectors and developed using standardized and scientifically validated methods (so called <strong>Reference Unit Costs (RUCs)</strong>) by the scientific partners of the PECUNIA Consortium between 2019 and 2021 based on the preliminary conceptual and methodological work conducted in 2018. The RUCs were developed using standardized and validated PECUNIA RUC Templates to introduce a higher degree of methodological harmonization and transparency in unit costs within and across sectors and countries. They are consistent with the harmonised PECUNIA Costing Concept (PECUNIA Care Atom, PECUNIA Service Lists, PECUNIA Coding System) and therefore with other PECUNIA Costing Tools (PECUNIA RUC Templates, PECUNIA RUM Instrument) to achieve comparability by referring to content rather than linguistic equivalence of services and other resource items. In the PECUNIA RUC Compendium, each listed RUC is complemented by multiple meta-data and a <strong>summary indicator</strong> of the overall <strong>level of certainty</strong> based on the robustness of the costing approach used and the outcome of the external validation process for fully transparency. <strong>Version 1.0</strong> of the PECUNIA RUC Compendium contains <strong>RUC estimates</strong> (in Euro, for year 2019) for a core set of <strong>service and resource use items</strong> commonly occurring in <strong>health economic evaluations with a societal perspective</strong> for <strong>multiple sectors</strong>: health and social care (HSC), education (ED), (criminal) justice (CJ), employment and productivity (EP), and patient, family and informal care (PFI); for <strong>multiple European countries</strong> (Austria, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, England, and Spain). It is a living document planned to be regularly updated and expanded both in terms of the covered service and resource use items and the number of countries over time.**PECUNIA参考单位成本汇编（PECUNIA Reference Unit Costs Compendium，简称PECUNIA RUC Compendium）**是一款基于Microsoft Excel®的多领域、跨国家单位成本数据库，可实现不同国家与领域间的成本可比。该数据库由PECUNIA联盟的科研合作伙伴于2019年至2021年间开发，其前期概念与方法学工作于2018年完成，开发过程采用了经过标准化处理且经科学验证的**参考单位成本（Reference Unit Costs，简称RUCs）**方法。 上述参考单位成本通过标准化且经过验证的**PECUNIA RUC模板（PECUNIA RUC Templates）**开发，旨在提升各领域、各国家内部及之间单位成本的方法学统一性与透明度。其与统一化的**PECUNIA成本核算概念（PECUNIA Costing Concept）**（包含**PECUNIA护理原子（PECUNIA Care Atom）**、**PECUNIA服务清单（PECUNIA Service Lists）**、**PECUNIA编码体系（PECUNIA Coding System）**）保持一致，因此也适配所有**PECUNIA成本核算工具（PECUNIA Costing Tools）**（**PECUNIA RUC模板（PECUNIA RUC Templates）**、**PECUNIA RUM工具（PECUNIA RUM Instrument）**），通过锚定服务与其他资源项目的内容而非语言等效性来实现成本可比性。 在PECUNIA RUC汇编中，每一项收录的参考单位成本均附带多项元数据，以及一项反映整体**确定性水平（level of certainty）**的**汇总指标（summary indicator）**，该指标基于所用成本核算方法的稳健性与外部验证流程结果生成，以实现完全透明化。 **PECUNIA RUC汇编1.0版本**收录了适用于多领域的核心**服务与资源使用项目（service and resource use items）**的**参考单位成本估算值（RUC estimates）**（以欧元计价，对应2019年基准），这类项目常见于**采用社会视角的卫生经济评价（health economic evaluations with a societal perspective）**中，覆盖领域包括：健康与社会照护（Health and Social Care，简称HSC）、教育（Education，简称ED）、（刑事）司法（Criminal Justice，简称CJ）、就业与生产力（Employment and Productivity，简称EP）以及患者、家庭与非正式照护（Patient, Family and Informal Care，简称PFI）；同时涵盖多个欧洲国家：奥地利、德国、匈牙利、荷兰、英格兰与西班牙。 本汇编属于动态更新文档，计划后续定期对收录的服务与资源使用项目范围以及覆盖国家数量进行扩充与更新。