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As I was reading chapter 6 on costs and came to table 6.2 on pg. 152, I had a suggestion that is very easy to add to the table and sometimes (many times!) helps non-quantitative decision-makers. A cumulative PV column (column 6) can be a nice addition. As a forensic economist I am always projecting future economic loss and then discounting the stream of benefits. I have found that with a cumulative column you can glance at a particular year and know the magnitude of the PV of cost without having to add up the numbers. Just a thought. If you visit the www.ssrn.com site you may be familiar with this already. It basically is a collection of economic articles by journal topic--macro, micro, econometrics, etc. Under the section I-Health if you click on the forst category after I0 and then click number 3- there is an interesting article that I just downloaded Should the Consumption of Survivors be Included as a Cost in CUA? Response: Technically, yes. Practically speaking, very few researchers actually include survival costs. The Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommends that costs both with and without survival valuations be included.Survival costs (future medical goods and services consumed) can be obtained via MEPS (see the "Data" section of this website.)