Table 3 Costs of cerebrovascular diseases in the UK in 2004.

Type of resource used	Unit of measurement	Units of resources consumed	Average unit cost (£)	Total cost (million £s)	Source (reference number)
Healthcare cost
Primary care	Doctor consultations at clinic	406801	28.00	11.39	4, 15, 17
	Doctor consultations at home	441851	65.00	28.72	4, 15, 17
	Nurse consultations at clinic	17147	9.00	0.15	4, 15, 17
	Nurse consultations at home	3654	16.00	0.06	4, 15, 17
Accident and emergency	Attendances	95101	82.00	7.80	12, 18
Hospital outpatient care	Attendances	187249	111.88	20.95	9, 10, 16
Hospital inpatient care	Inpatient bed days	5674386	617.09	3501.59	11, 16
Hospital day case	Day cases	1504	402.65	0.61	12, 18
Drugs	Prescriptions	8071555	10.72	86.55	6, 14
	Dispensing	8071555	1.53	12.35	19
Cardiac rehabilitation	Rehabilitation programmes completed	73381	627.57	46.05	8, 13
Community health/social services				981.51	5
Healthcare cost adjusted for private care	Private funded part of total health expenditure			531.75	11
Healthcare cost subtotal				5229.48
Non‐healthcare cost
Informal care	Caring by economically active carers (hours)	110392300	12.75	1407.50	17, 20, 21, 22, 23
	Caring by economically inactive carers (hours)	69344153	4.85	336.32	17, 20, 21, 22, 23
Mortality	Working years lost (men)	28932	30 131	492.70*	1, 17
	Working years lost (women)	15611	21 730	179.85*	1, 17
Morbidity	Certified incapacity (days)	9028107	100.98	911.66	17, 25
Morbidity (friction adjusted)				353.66
Non‐health subtotal				3328.03
Friction adjusted				2770.03
Total economic burden				8557.51
Friction adjusted				7999.51

*Future earnings discounted at 3.5%.