TABLE 3. Mean individually calculated reduction in ongoing costs and life-time savings based on period life expectancy.
| Life Expectancy Group | PDOC assessment 0 PVS (n = 289) | Active Rehabilitation Group: Functional category | Total Active Rehabilitation Group (excluding PDOC assessment) (N = 3289) | Whole Life expectancy Sample (N = 3578) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Cannot walk, Fed by others (N = 444) | 2 Cannot walk, Self feeds (N = 961) | 3 Some walking ability (N = 648) | 4 Walks well alone (N = 1235) | ||||||
| Sampling | n = 249 | n = 404 | n = 900 | n = 603 | n = 1103 | n = 3010 | n = 3259 | ||
| Missing (%) | 40 (14%) | 40 (9%) | 61 (6%) | 45 (7%) | 132 (11%) | 279 (8%) | 319 (9%) | ||
| Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean | 95% CIa | Mean | 95% CIa | |
| Cost of rehabilitation episode | £70 491 | £70 703 | £52 455 | £31 266 | £25 226 | £40 612 | £39 261, £41 957 | £42 894 | £41 512, £44 235 |
| Annual savings in care costsb | £674 | £4872 | £32 478 | £39 865 | £33.443 | £30 603 | £28 934, £32 185 | £28 317 | £26 889, £29 802 |
| Time to offset the cost of rehabilitation, moc | − | 172.6 | 19.4 | 9.4 | 9.1 | 15.9 | 15.6, 16.3 | 18.2 | 17.8, 18.5 |
| Life-time savings | |||||||||
| Remaining years adjusted for TBI | 8.2 | 12.6 | 19.0 | 22.6 | 29.4 | 22.7 | 22.2, 23.2 | 21.6 | 21.1, 22.0 |
| Estimated total life-time savings | £11 024 | £63 523 | £683 126 | £956 668 | £1 029 093 | £781 541 | £734 998, £832 604 | £722 670 | £679 189, £765 372 |
| Net total life time savings after deduction of rehabilitation costs | −£59 467 | −£6 549 | £630 671 | £925 402 | £1 003 827 | £740 929 | £694 621, £791 256 | £679 776 | £635 972, £722 786 |
| Extrapolated for the sample | £2 436 916 242 | £2 432 238 192 | |||||||
| Extrapolated for the study population | £4 115 861 881 | £4 107 885 801 | |||||||
| Discounted lifetime savings | |||||||||
| Net average annual savingsc | −£7225 | −£521 | £33 120 | £40 912 | £34 169 | £32 672 | £31 303, £34 148 | £31 513 | £30 160, £32 783 |
| Net total life-time savings discounted at 1.5% | −£55 556 | −£5 928 | £545 075 | £779 856 | £807 045 | £624 141 | £587 141, £664 231 | £577 103 | £541 762, £611 560 |
| Net total life-time savings discounted at 3% | −£50 932 | −£5226 | £454 780 | £632 076 | £620 91 | £505 634 | £477 512, £536 08 | £471 685 | £444 534, £479 940 |
Abbreviations: PDOC, prolonged disorder of consciousness; PVS, persistent vegetative state; TBI, traumatic brain injury.
aBootstrapped with 1000 bootstrapping samples.
bAs estimated by the NPCNA.
cCalculated on aggregated data.