Socioeconomic costs of overactive bladder and stress urinary incontinence in Korea.

Purpose: We quantified and described the economic burden of overactive bladder and stress urinary incontinence in Korea. We calculated direct costs by identifying public and private data sources that contain population-based data on resource utilization by patients with stress urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.

Methods: For estimating indirect costs (productivity loss), the human capital approach was applied.