Table 1.

Unit cost of health care resource use data over 12 months

Health care resource	Unit cost, 2010/11 prices, £
Primary care contacts [13]
Doctor at practice	28.00
Nurse at practice	10.00
Nurse at home	13.00
Secondary care contacts [14]
Orthopaedic surgeon	70.00
Rheumatologist	81.00
Plastic surgeon	52.00
Physiotherapist	35.00
Occupational therapist	38.00
Intervention cost
Leaflet and advicea	28.00
Joint protection plus hand exercises	64.17
Joint protection only	45.29
Hand exercises only	36.64
Prescribed medication [12]	Participant specific
Medical investigations/ interventions [14]	Participant specific
Other health care staff	Participant specific

^aAll participants received the leaflet and advice. For this reason, the costs associated with this intervention were assumed to be zero and were not included in the analysis.