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Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Jul 6;(7):CD009231. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009231

Analysis 2.2. Comparison 2 Resource use and cost, Outcome 2 Cost.

Cost

Study
Hughes 1992	1986 prices (average costs)
	Home care:
	treatment: $1,001
	control = $343
	p = <0.001
	Insufficient data to calculate CI
	VA hospital:
	treatment: $1,795
	control: $3,434
	p < 0.02
	Insufficient data to calculate CI
	VA general bed:
	treatment: $1,310
	control: $2,807
	p < 0.02
	Insufficient data to calculate CI
	Cost of all institutional care:
	treatment: $2341.79
	control: $3757.37
	p = 0.05
	Insufficient data to calculate CI
	Net health care costs per capita:
	treatment mean: $4,248.68
	control mean: $3,479.36
	Insufficient data to calculate CI