Table 4.
Comparison of costs in the patients with community-acquired pneumonia regarding the presence of comorbidities.
| Inpatients | Outpatients | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comorbidity |
Comorbidity |
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| Costs per patient, € | Present n = 168 mean ± SD | Absent n = 40 mean ± SD | p | Present n = 151 mean ± SD | Absent n = 60 mean ± SD | p | |||
| Specialist visit | 27.22 ± 18.90 | 18.75 ± 11.20 | 0.003 | 7.71 ± 2.74 | 7.45 ± 2.65 | 0.338 | |||
| Imaging | 26.94 ± 25.36 | 26.10 ± 29.88 | 0.356 | 16.69 ± 15.81 | 10.78 ± 10.53 | 0.002 | |||
| Laboratory | 51.27 ± 50.17 | 39.17 ± 41.17 | 0.018 | 18.37 ± 22.70 | 12.39 ± 20.89 | 0.009 | |||
| Medication | 326.36 ± 892.82 | 265.47 ± 503.42 | 0.041 | 27.46 ± 24.74 | 17.64 ± 14.00 | 0.019 | |||
| Hospitalization | 136.67 ± 134.24 | 158.65 ± 197.14 | 0.118 | — | — | — | |||
| Total | 567.81 ± 1,056.84 | 506.84 ± 756.76 | 0.016 | 58.06 ± 44.01 | 33.77 ± 24.63 | <0.001 | |||
SD, standard deviation.