Table 16:

Estimates of Annual Per-Person Costs of Additional Care Including Medications^a

Additional Care in UC/CBT	Per-Person Cost, $a
	Physicianb	Drug 1b	Drug 2b	Totalc
Not using drugs	125.5	NA	NA	125.5
Same medication throughout year	564.75	356.2	NA	666.3
Starting with one medication and adding another during follow-up	878.5	178.1	193.44	1,039.5
Adding medication during follow-up	564.75	178.1	NA	615.5

Abbreviations: CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy; NA, not available; UC, usual care.

^aAll costs were estimated in 2018 Canadian dollars.

^bAll costs related to physician fees and medication are considered fixed in the analysis, meaning that no distributions were assigned.

^cTotal costs are not a simple sum of the values across the rows; they are smaller because they are adjusted to account for public funding of drugs in 57% of the population, for compliance, and the increasing number of follow-up physician visits after changes in medication dose during the last 6 months of follow-up. Another medication dose was considered during follow-up for people who did not benefit from treatment.