Table 6.
Patients and cost ratios for selected ACG categories and for Resource Use Bands.
| Selected ACG categories |
RUB |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | % patients | Cost ratio | 95% CI | Band | % patients | Cost ratio | 95% CI |
| Non-users | 9.44 | 1.00 | – | Non-user | 9.44 | 1.00 | – |
| No diagnosis or only unclassified Diagnosis | 20.05 | 2.58 | (2.40,2.77) | Healthy user | 36.36 | 3.28 | (3.06,3.51) |
| Preventive/administrative | 6.47 | 4.04 | (3.72,4.39) | Low morbid | 25.03 | 5.60 | (5.22,6.01) |
| Acute minor, age 6+ | 9.63 | 4.25 | (3.95,4.57) | Moderate | 27.26 | 9.54 | (8.90,10.23) |
| Chronic medical: stable | 2.49 | 7.06 | (6.49,7.68) | High | 1.70 | 13.44 | (12.36,14.62) |
| 2–3 Other ADG combinations, age 35+ | 9.98 | 8.93 | (8.31,9.60) | Very high | 0.20 | 16.02 | (13.81,18.58) |
| 4–5 Other ADG combinations, age 45+, no major ADGs | 1.83 | 10.90 | (10.05,11.82) | ||||
| 4–5 Other ADG combinations, age 45+, 1 major ADG | 2.28 | 12.50 | (11.56,13.51) | ||||
| 6–9 Other ADG combinations, age 35+, 0–1 major ADG | 1.52 | 16.32 | (15.03,17.71) | ||||
| 10+ other ADG combinations, age 18+, 2 major ADGs | 0.05 | 21.75 | (16.90,27.99) | ||||
| 6–9 other ADG combinations, male, age 18–34, 1 major ADG | 0.01 | 46.78 | (20.99,104.22) | ||||
Notes. Estimates from GLM log Poisson model also including age, gender, deprivation and practice effects. Cost ratios for mutually exclusive ACG categories (or RUBs) are the relevant model estimated costs for a patient in the ACG (or RUB) category divided by the estimated cost for a patient with no use. ADGs: Adjusted Disease Groups are combinations of diagnoses used to construct Adjusted Clinical Groups.