Table 2.
Cost data reported by trials
| Cost analysis | |||||
| Trial | Year | Country | Treatment arm | Costs | Comments |
| Cohen | 2002 | USA (US Dollars) |
Geriatric Unit + Usual Care Outpatient | 36,592 (1844 SD) | Direct cost comparison separated into institutional costs and costs estimated for nursing home admissions based on standardised HMO rates |
| Usual Care Inpatient + Usual Care Outpatient (Control) | 38,624 (2037) | ||||
| Geriatric Unit + Geriatric Outpatient | 35,935 (1829) | ||||
| Usual Care Inpatient + Geriatric Outpatient (Control) | 35,951 (1827) | ||||
| Collard | 1985 | USA (US Dollars) |
Choate (Experimental) | 4015.17 (SE 0.03) | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Choate (Control) | 4545.13 (SE 0.03) | ||||
| Symmes (Experimental) | 3591.42 (SE 0.03) | ||||
| Symmes (Control) | 4155.54 (SE 0.02) | ||||
| Fretwell | 1990 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 3148 (7210 SD) | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Control | 4163 (18,406) | ||||
| Applegate | 1990 | USA (US Dollars) |
Geriatric Unit (Rehab Diagnosis) | 32,978 (35,130 SD) | Health and social care costs up to 1 year after randomisation |
| Geriatric Unit (Medical/Surgical Diagnosis) | 25,846 (29,628) | ||||
| Usual Care (Rehab/Diagnosis) | 18,409 (16,555) | ||||
| Usual Care (Medical/Surgical Diagnosis) | 15,248 (13,152) | ||||
| Asplund | 2000 | Sweden (Swedish Kronar) |
Experiment | 10,800 (9300 ‐ 12,300 IQR) | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Control | 12,800 (11,500 ‐ 14,100) | ||||
| Counsell | 2000 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 5640 | Included in experimental group costs are costs of renovation of geriatric unit |
| Control | 5754 | ||||
| Hogan | 1987 | Canada (Canadian Dollars) |
Experiment | 98.36 | Monthly costings for physician services only |
| Control | 77.68 | ||||
| Landefeld | 1995 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 6608 | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Control | 7240 | ||||
| Nikolaus | 1999 | Germany (Deutschmark) |
Geriatric Unit + ESD | 3,365,000 (1,922,400) | Costs for hospital care and nursing homes (estimated as costs per 100 people per year) |
| Geriatric Unit only | 3,983,000 (2,276,000) | ||||
| Control | 4,145,000 | ||||
| Rubenstein | 1984 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 22,597 | Costs per year survived including hospital and nursing home costs |
| Control | 27,826 | ||||
| Naughton | 1994 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 4525 (5087 SD) | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Control | 6474 (7000) | ||||
| White | 1994 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 23,906 | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Control | 45,189 | ||||
| Barnes | 2012 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 9477 | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Control | 10,451 | ||||
| Edmans | 2013 | UK (UK Pounds) |
Experiment | 4475 (95% CI 3901 to 5141) | Care cost + intervention cost up to 90 days after hospital discharge |
| Control | 4,057 (95% CI 3367 to 4882) | ||||
| Wald | 2011 | USA (US Dollars) |
Experiment | 24,617 (15,828 SD) | Direct cost comparison (hospital costs only) |
| Control | 21,488 (13,407 SD) | ||||
Owing to variation in time periods (1985 to 2013) and resources costed, these data are not used in the analysis of costs.