Table 5.

Overall and by-component, per-patient costs expressed in Euros

	OutpatientsaN=340	Inpatients N=241	Total N=581	p	% Total cost
Medical visits
Primary care	65.48	46.42	57.57	<0.001	4.2
Specialist	95.74	185.61	133.02	<0.001	9.7
Emergency room	71.73	7.17	44.95	<0.001	3.3
Test
Laboratory tests	10.42	10.98	10.65	NS	0.8
Conventional radiology	14.89	8.28	12.15	<0.001	0.9
Complementary tests	2.36	3.48	2.82	NS	0.2
Pharmacological treatments	65.65	78.66	71.05	0.002	5.2
Hospitalizations	0.00	2006.45	832.28		60.9
Hospital admission	0.00	1625.22	674.15		49.3
Readmission	0.00	381.23	158.13		11.6
Direct costs	326.25	2,347.05	1,164.49	<0.001	85.2
Indirect costs	260.23	118.60	201.48	0.009	14.8
Total costs	586.48	2,465.65	1,365.97	<0.001	100

^aOutpatient: includes patients diagnosed in primary care centres and emergency rooms at hospitals.