Table 3. Service use and costs (2007/8 €s) for patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA).

	France						Germany						UK
	Users		Contacts1		Cost2		Users		Contacts1		Cost2		Users		Contacts1		Cost2
	N	%	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	N	%	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	N	%	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Neurologist	137	87	2.8	1.6	99	116	111	83	4.6	4.4	130	169	86	87	1.6	1.2	434	400
Other doctor	49	31	2.2	2.0	27	61	67	50	3.1	2.9	52	98	33	33	2.2	1.4	103	184
Day patient	37	23	4.8	3.8	342	850	4	3	4.8	2.9	51	332	8	8	32.4	42.8	759	4200
Residential care	11	7	94.9	66.9	954	4349	1	1	174.0	-	224	2605	7	7	84.4	89.9	839	4373
Neurology inpat3	19	12	8.5	7.7	395	1504	51	38	16.5	11.0	1982	3327	15	15	7.7	4.8	547	1554
Other inpat3	28	18	15.5	33.6	1664	8481	21	16	16.7	16.2	1445	4925	17	17	8.0	8.5	676	2241
GP	145	92	5.1	4.1	126	114	115	86	5.4	7.3	92	161	86	87	3.4	2.9	137	174
Physiotherapist	108	68	54.2	33.2	773	808	104	78	37.8	21.5	864	733	43	43	9.3	11.3	205	490
Social worker	18	11	22.3	53.5	560	4600	4	3	1.5	0.6	3	21	28	28	3.5	3.1	86	207
Nurse	44	28	113.4	128.1	365	1026	11	8	117.3	132.0	321	1626	46	47	11.8	29.3	107	440
Speech therapist	52	33	34.4	24.0	240	500	44	33	21.8	16.2	234	475	37	37	3.4	4.2	59	195
Home help	33	21	88.2	65.2	627	1843	9	7	60.4	52.7	358	2600	13	13	117.1	163.2	347	1219
Blood test	68	43	1.9	2.1	21	43	93	69	2.4	3.1	50	86	44	44	2.0	1.7	22	38
CT scan	11	7	1.0	0.0	13	50	15	11	1.2	0.6	15	46	8	8	1.0	0.0	18	62
EEG	8	5	1.3	0.5	3	13	32	24	1.3	0.8	8	18	6	6	1.2	0.4	3	12
MRI	25	16	1.0	0.2	56	136	41	31	1.1	0.3	72	114	16	16	1.1	0.3	78	183
Prostheses	89	54	-	-	35	42	67	50	-	-	36	45	45	46	-	-	23	31
Adaptations	55	34	-	-	76	133	62	46	-	-	120	177	35	35	-	-	79	144
Unpaid care4	110	70	77.4	72.2	21130	28581	103	77	49.8	47.6	19036	24049	75	77	42.2	49.4	14186	20639
Medication	157	96	-	-	362	334	120	89	-	-	317	509	90	91	-	-	226	326
Total	158	100	-	-	28924	29317	134	100	-	-	25645	24284	98	100	-	-	19103	21372

¹Data on contacts are only for those using services,

²Data on costs are for whole sample,

³Contacts refer to number of days,

⁴Contacts refer to weekly hours.