Table 4.

Mean costs calculated at the first visit in patients who survived and who died over the 3-year period

	Mean cost (euro) for patients (n=164) who survived [95% CI]	Mean cost (euro) for patients (n=111) who died [95% CI]	Welch’s t-test P-value
Hospitalization costs	673.9 [420.6; 1,094.6]	3,886.1 [3,007.4; 4,764.8]	0.001
Outpatient costs	147.5 [87.8; 207.7]	929.5 [699.9; 1,159.4]	0.001
Pharmaceutical costs	218.2 [134.9; 301.5]	809.5 [600.7; 1,018.3]	0.001
Direct costs	1,039.6 [868.1; 1,211.1]	5,625.1 [5,030.6; 6,219.6]	0.001
Indirect costs	121.4 [65.1; 177.7]	533.8 [342.8; 724.8]	0.001
Total costs	1,161.0 [968.4; 1,353.6]	6,158.9 [5,508.0; 6,809.8]	0.001

Note: In the brackets, the two figures reported correspond to the lower and the upper confidence limit (ie the interval) of each measure’s mean value.

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.