Table 4.

Reported data on unpaid informal care and productivity costs at 28 days

	n (%) Missing data n=894*	Reported data
Unpaid informal care	371 (41.5%)	n=523
Receiving any unpaid informal care—n (%)		180/523 (34.4%)
Hours of unpaid informal care if received—mean (SE)		n=180 69.17 (10.3)†
Total cost of unpaid informal care		n=523 £357.30 (£88.16)‡
Employment status	368 (41.2%)	n=526
In paid employment before admission—n (%)		123/526 (23.4%)
Not returned to work since admission—n (%)		41/121 (33.9%)§
Hours of work lost if not returned—mean (SE)		n=41 125.21 (7.8)¶
Returned to work since admission—n (%)		80/121 (66.1%)§
Hours of work lost if returned to work—mean (SE)		n=80 66.30 (5.5)**
Total cost of lost working hours—mean (SE)		£274.58 (£26.50)††

Italics typeface are used for average hours within each section. *n=894 patients not recorded as having died at 28 days.

†Mean imputation used for hours of informal care missing for 32/180 patients.

‡Costs of informal care adjusted for clustering and averaged across all 523 patients.

§Return to work field missing for 2/123 patients.

¶Mean imputation used for hours of lost work time data missing for 1/41 patients who were known not to have returned to work.

**Mean imputation used for hours lost data missing for 7/80 patients who were known to have returned to work.

††Productivity costs adjusted for clustering and averaged across all 526 patients.