Table 4.
Costs of various activities that were performed to assist patients in the CG and the IG with severe and symptomatic hypoglycemia episodes at baseline and at the end of follow-up
Event type | Cost per event (€) | Control group (CG) | Intervention group (IG) | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Severe hypos | Symptomatic hypos | Severe hypos | Symptomatic hypos | ||||||||||||||
Baseline | End of follow-up | Baseline | End of follow-up | Baseline | End of follow-up | Baseline | End of follow-up | ||||||||||
Events n = 26 |
€ | Events n = 22 |
€ | Events n = 133 |
€ | Events n = 135 |
€ | Events n = 26 |
€ | Events n = 1 |
€ | Events n = 133 |
€ | Events n = 12 |
€ | ||
PHV | 25.8 | 26 | 670.8 | 20 | 516 | 90 | 2323.8 | 80 | 2065 | 0 | – | 1 | 25.8 | 82 | 2117.2 | 9 | 233 |
ER | 241.0 | 18 | 4338 | 14 | 3375 | 22 | 5302 | 14 | 3374 | 21 | 5061 | 0 | – | 20 | 4820 | 1 | 241 |
EMS | 128.5 | 26 | 3341 | 20 | 2570 | 22 | 2827 | 18 | 2313 | 30 | 3855 | 0 | – | 20 | 2570 | 1 | 128.5 |
FM/C-WD | 78.6 | 14 | 1100.4 | 62 | 4873.2 | 52 | 4087.2 | 102 | 8017.2 | 72 | 5659.2 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
DHC | 750 | 18 | 13,500 | 17 | 12,750 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 18 | 13,500 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
IDC | Total cost (€) | 22,950.2 | 24,084.2 | 14,540.0 | 15,769.2 | 28,075.2 | 25.8 | 9507.2 | 602.5 |
The costs were calculated based on average National Health Service rates, as already reported in [24]
PHV physician home visit, ER emergency room visit and treatment, EMS emergency medical service call/h, FM family member, C caregiver, WD working day, DHC daily hospitalization cost, IC insulin cost