Table 6.

Main events counted to estimate use of resources over the one year follow up

	Eradication group (No of events)	Eradication costs ($C)	Placebo group (No of events)	Placebo costs ($C)
Admissions to hospital for stomach problems	1	432	6	2 592
Visits to family practitioner	120	2 186	150	2 787
Visits to specialist (surgeon or gastroenterologist)	24	1 631	32	2 033
Upper gastrointestinal barium study	13	1 103	14	1 188
Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy	11	1 041	16	1 514
Cost of prescription drugs for dyspepsia*	179 prescriptions (73 patients)	25 816	299 prescriptions (87 patients)	38 974
Cost of non-prescription drugs for dyspepsia†	–	3 527	–	4 486
Laboratory tests	24	714	36	1 254
Days of work missed	263 (30 patients)	16 910	226 (24 patients)	13 200
Other‡	53	2 138	61	2 663

1 $C≈0.60 US$≈£0.43. 

^*Costs include drug treatment at start of study; costs taken from a log of gastrointestinal medications; includes antibiotics given for repeat Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment during the study. 

^†Cost of non-prescription drugs paid by the patient as reported in the questionnaire; the number and types of drugs taken were not captured. 

^‡Includes visits to a nurse, imaging studies (abdominal and chest radiography, ultrasonography of abdomen and pelvis, computed tomography of abdomen, barium enema), sigmoidoscopy, one colonoscopy, and transportation costs.