Table 3.

Gastrointestinal bleeding events – average attributable costs per patient, EUR (2015 prices)

	3-years costs (present value calculated in the incidence year)a	Annual attributable cost estimates (not discounted)b
		Year 0 (incidence year)	Year 1 after the bleeding event	Year 2 after the bleeding event
Direct costs
Healthcare	14,492	12,736	1796	658
Inpatient hospital care	13,453	12,090***	1521***	475
Outpatient hospital care	852	516***	249**	142
Private practice health prof.	−4	79***	−42***	−46**
Prescribed medicine	190	51***	68***	88***
Social care services	3060	851	1138	1339
Home help	1840	437***	696***	874***
Nursing home	1219	414**	442**	465*
Indirect costs
Productivity loss	317	115	160	66
Direct and indirect costs	17,868	13,702	3093	2063

^aSee Table 2

^bSee Table 2

Asterisks indicate that the null-hypothesis was rejected (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001)