Table 2. Resource utilization and costs of patients with Parkinson's disease in Hungary.

	Resource utilisation		Average yearly cost, EUR/patient/year
	Rate of patients with at least one occasion (%)	Mean of the quantity used in the past 12 months (n = 109)	Cost per patient (total sample)	Cost category (total sample)
Consultations (outpatient)	-	-	50.9	Direct medical cost: 2149.3 Euro/patient/year (35.7%)
GP visit	68 (62.3%)	3.3	17.8
Specialist visit	100 (91.7%)	4.9	33.1
Hospital admission	37 (33.9%)	0.4	348.4
Diagnostics	-	-	42.5
CT scan	68 (62.4%)	0.4	8.0
MRI scan	54 (49.5%)	0.2	11.4
SPECT	17 (15.6%)	0.04	17.8
Laboratory tests	67 (601.5%)	0.8	0.7
X-ray	28 (25.7%)	0.1	0.5
Neuropsychology	41 (37.6%)	0.3	3.4
Doppler	21 (19.3%)	0.1	0.4
Tremor analysis	18 (16.5%)	0.1	0.2
Tests of autonomic functions	21 (19.3%)	0.2	0,1
Drugs (present users)	-	-	1614.3
MAO-B inhibitor	35 (32.1%)		179.1
Amantadine	29 (26.6%)		33.5
Anticholinergic drug	4 (3.7%)		3.9
Dopamin agonist	50 (45.9%)		484.7
Levodopa+decarboxylase inhibitor	59 (54.1%)		117.9
Levodopa+decarboxylase inhibitor+COMT inhibitor	34 (31.2%)	-	535.0
COMT-inhibitor	18 (16.5%)	-	260.2
Other health care services	-	-	93.2
Not reimbursed services	19 (17.4%)	-	57.2
Ambulance	8 (7.3%)	0.2	36.0
Non-medical cares	-	-	1774.6	Direct non-medical cost: 1774.6 EUR (29.4%)
Transportation	92 (84.45%)	-	69.9
Informal care	47 (43.1%)	12.6 hours/week	1704.7
Productivity loss	-	-	2106.3	Indirect cost: 2106.3 EUR (34.9%)
Work disability pension*	19 (17.4%)	NA	2002.7
Sick leave	5 (4.6%)	1.6 days/year	75.1
Part time job due to PD	1 (0.9%)	NA	28.5
Total	NA	NA	NA	6030.2 EUR

For cost of drugs see also Table S2.

(N = 109; conversion €1 = 280.6 HUF);

* All of them are on disability pension due to their Parkinson's disease.