Table 2.
Total resource use and costs during 12 months poststroke (bootstrapped)
| Users |
Resource use per patient |
Costs per patient |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | N | Per cent | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Median | Per cent | |
| Healthcare costs | |||||||||
| General practitioner | Contact | 331 | 94.0 | 7.2 | 5.75 | 214.2 | 10.32 | 214.0 | 0.73 |
| Specialist | Contact | 332 | 95.3 | 8.1 | 8.08 | 1021.3 | 58.25 | 1021.3 | 3.46 |
| Allied health professionals | Contact | 232 | 65.9 | 20.9 | 30.56 | 682.3 | 56.66 | 681.5 | 2.31 |
| Mental healthcare professionals | Contact | 63 | 17.9 | 1.5 | 8.51 | 138.8 | 44.98 | 134.5 | 0.47 |
| Rehabilitation treatment | Day | 230 | 65.3 | 23.2 | 32.95 | 6178.7 | 489.09 | 6173.5 | 20.95 |
| Hospital | Night | 285 | 81.0 | 7.8 | 8.90 | 3793.9 | 245.51 | 3785.9 | 12.87 |
| Rehabilitation clinic | Night | 75 | 21.3 | 11.5 | 36.06 | 4172.0 | 751.45 | 4127.7 | 14.15 |
| Nursing home | Night | 28 | 8.0 | 5.2 | 29.00 | 1345.4 | 423.94 | 1325.3 | 4.56 |
| Psychiatric clinic | Night | 5 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.67 | 14.7 | 9.76 | 13.2 | 0.05 |
| Medication | Various | 345 | 98.0 | 506.9 | 26.32 | 506.3 | 1.72 | ||
| Total healthcare costs | 18 068.2 | 2116.28 | 17 983.2 | 61.28 | |||||
| Non-healthcare costs | |||||||||
| Paid home care | h/week | 108 | 30.7 | 5.2 | 16.80 | 3383.6 | 767.68 | 3329.8 | 11.5 |
| Informal care | h/week | 190 | 54.0 | 10.9 | 24.46 | 2029.3 | 293.70 | 2022.4 | 6.88 |
| Inability to do unpaid labour | Day | 177 | 50.3 | 28.2 | 58.15 | 3000.0 | 355.43 | 2996.2 | 10.17 |
| Production losses | Day | 102 | 29.0 | 34.0 | 72.17 | 3003.1 | 333.48 | 2984.1 | 10.18 |
| Total non-healthcare costs | 11 416.0 | 1750.30 | 11 332.5 | 38.72 | |||||
| Total societal costs | 29 484.2 | 3866.58 | 29 315.7 | 100.00 | |||||