Table 3.

Cost of cases and controls

	Cases	Controls (weighted)	p-value
Patients	91	91 (1184 non-weighted)
A. Cost: Primary admission, mean EUR [95% CI]	18,826 [12,417–25,235]	9321 [6867–11,775]	0.014
B. Cost: 6 months from primary admission minus cost of primary admission, mean EUR [95% CI]	8607 [4977–12,237]	3639 [2791–4488]	0.016
C. Cost: 7th to 12th month after the beginning of the primary admission, mean EUR [95% CI]	623 [156–1090]	1166 [753–1047]	0.104
D. Cost: Total cost from beginning of primary admission and 12 month onwards, mean EUR [95% CI]	28,056 [20,997–35,115]	14,126 [11,295–16,957]	0.001