Table 1.

Model inputs: probabilities, costs (Euro 2009), utility and distributions

	Distribution	Mean	SD
Admission part: medication reconciliation and review process at initial hospital admission
Probability of death before discharge
Control	β	0.089	0.029
Intervention	β	0.110	0.031
Probability of death during 3 month after discharge
Control	β	0.098	0.030
Intervention	β	0.093	0.029
Probability of hospital readmissions
Control	β	0.130	0.034
Intervention	β	0.062	0.024
Mean hospital cost per hospitalised patient
Control (sensitivity)	γ	3620	2843
Intervention (sensitivity)	γ	4925	3352
All 18 hospitalisations	γ	4055	2989
Drug review cost per patient
Control	γ	45.57	23.36
Intervention	γ	33.92	14.24
Discharge part: medication report at discharge from hospital
Probability of hospital readmissions
Control	β	0.017	0.013
Intervention	β	0.004	0.006
Probability of unscheduled outpatient contact
Control	β	0.073	0.026
Intervention	β	0.040	0.020
Probability of prescription error
Control	β	0.620	0.487
Intervention	β	0.315	0.465
Relative risk reduction for prescription error probability w QC			0.737
Outpatient nursing time cost for review of medication list
Control	γ	25.65	10.77
Intervention	γ	10.21	4.29
Primary physician-patient contact cost
Both arms	γ	18.58	9.19
Primary physician-nurse/discharging clinic contact cost
Control: physician-nurse	γ	12.86	5.53
Control: physician-clinic	γ	4.29	0.62
Intervention: physician-nurse	γ	4.05	3.15
Intervention: physician-clinic	γ	1.99	0.51
Intervention cost
Training in medication report cost	γ	0.35	0.07
QC of discharge information	γ	8.70	3.65
Utility decrement (assumption)
For hospitalisations	β	0.060	0.085
For outpatient contact	β	0.002	0.001

QC, quality check.