1. 14) state : 'The total lifetime cost of injury for Victoria in 1993-94 was estimated at $2.6 billion of which direct costs of $759 million accounted for 29.4 per cent of total lifetime cost and the indirect cost of mortality and morbidity, as calculated using the human capital approach, was a further $1.8 billion representing 71.6 per cent of the total lifetime cost. This result closely follows the estimates in the seminal 1989 study of Rice et al. as reported in the Regarding a reasonable proxy for possible ALOS, Helps;terms of generally accepted proportions between direct and indirect costs, Potter-Forbes and Aisbett,2002