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. 2014 Oct 9;54(10):1565–1573. doi: 10.1111/head.12456

Table 3.

Summary of Total Resource Utilization Counts and Cost Over the Observational Period

Healthcare Resource Pretreatment Posttreatment Change P value
Emergency department visits
 Proportion of patients with one or more 54.3% 31.7% −22.6% <.001
 Total count 385 174 −211
 Mean (range) number of visits 1.67 (0-18) 0.76 (0-17) −0.92 ± 2.04 <.001
 Estimated cost/patient $791.28 $360.10 −$431.18§
Urgent care visits
 Proportion of patients with one or more 20.2% 9.6% −10.6% .061
 Total count 150 61 −89
 Mean (range) number of visits 0.65 (0-12) 0.27 (0-8) −0.39 ± 1.46 <.001
 Estimated cost/patient $84.68 $35.18 −$49.50§
Hospitalizations
 Proportion of patients with one or more 15.7% 7.4% 8.3% .013
 Total count 45 19 −26
 Mean (range) number of visits 0.20 (0-5) 0.08 (0-2) −0.11 ± 0.55 .002
 Estimated cost/patient $1231.08 $492.43 −$738.65§
OnabotulinumtoxinA
 Estimated cost/patient $0 $2451.02 +$2451.02
Net cost/patient
 Net cost +$1219.33
 % Cost offset 49.7%

Pretreatment values were obtained through patient recall of the previous 6 months. Healthcare resource utilization in the 6 months prior to initiation of treatment with onabotulinumtoxinA was compared with the subsequent 6 months by calculating a mean per-patient reduction as well as the incident event rate ratio for each type of healthcare resource utilization.

Mean reduction in visits rounded to the nearest hundredth ± standard deviation.

§

Calculated by the mean reduction in visits multiplied by the unit cost of each healthcare resource.

— = not applicable.