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. 2017 Mar 10;13(7):1673–1680. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1300730

Table 2.

Comparison of costs in the patients with community-acquired pneumonia regarding age groups.

  Inpatients
Outpatients
Costs per patient, € <65 y n = 107 Mean ± SD ≥ 65 y n = 101 Mean ± SD p <65 y n = 150 Mean ± SD ≥ 65 y n = 61 Mean ± SD p
Specialist visit 23.87 ± 17.09 27.41 ± 18.78 0.079 7.57 ± 2.65 7.80 ± 2.88 0.604
Imaging 25.90 ± 23.67 27.7 ± 28.68 0.745 14.33 ± 13.48 17.08 ± 17.64 0.360
Laboratory 42.11 ± 36.95 56.18 ± 57.98 0.014 18.19 ± 23.2 14.38 ± 20.32 0.097
Medication 203.6 ± 400.24 432.29 ± 1,110.98 0.004 22.98 ± 18.87 30.31 ± 30.39 0.300
Hospitalization 117.84 ± 88.39 165.31 ± 189.62 0.034
Total 412.37 ± 506.75 708.34 ± 1,331.19 0.014 49.25 ± 38.22 55.83 ± 46.92 0.459`

SD, standard deviation.