Control | Intervention | Mean difference | 95% CI of the difference | p | ||||||
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M | SD | % of cost per case | M | SD | % of cost per case | |||||
Primary care | 19.15 | 35.56 | 1.86 | 13.37 | 24.43 | 1.61 | −5.78 | −16.62 | 5.06 | 0.30 |
General Practitioner | 11.73 | 29.06 | 1.14 | 10.87 | 21.99 | 1.31 | −0.86 | −9.94 | 8.22 | 0.85 |
Other community services | 3.63 | 8.88 | 0.35 | 2.50 | 7.47 | 0.30 | −1.13 | −3.93 | 1.85 | 0.48 |
Secondary care | 801.73 | 111.16 | 77.75 | 608.10 | 111.16 | 73.07 | −193.63 | −521.78 | 134.53 | 0.25 |
Nurse-led clinica | 260.69 | 150.66 | 25.28 | 216.10 | 156.98 | 25.97 | −44.59 | − 102.60 | 13.42 | 0.13 |
Other outpatient services | 75.78 | 111.16 | 7.35 | 73.19 | 108.48 | 8.79 | −2.60 | −44.76 | 39.57 | 0.90 |
Inpatient stays | 488.42 | 1184.02 | 47.36 | 308.21 | 839.69 | 37.03 | − 180.21 | − 538.17 | 177.76 | 0.32 |
Accident & emergency | 4.23 | 34.11 | 0.41 | 12.72 | 46.98 | 1.53 | 8.49 | −5.62 | 22.61 | 0.24 |
Total cost to the health service | 840.20 | 111.16 | 81.48 | 629.37 | 111.16 | 75.63 | − 210.83 | − 542.29 | 120.63 | 0.21 |
Individual costs | 321.33 | 414.39 | 31.16 | 294.31 | 364.93 | 35.36 | −27.03 | −178.19 | 124.14 | 0.73 |
Personal costs | 288.78 | 421.41 | 28.01 | 246.50 | 364.86 | 29.62 | −42.28 | − 194.30 | 109.73 | 0.59 |
Travel costs | 43.55 | 53.27 | 4.22 | 53.26 | 53.46 | 6.40 | 9.72 | −9.98 | 29.41 | 0.33 |
Total cost per case | 1031.18 | 1302.54 | 832.22 | 993.36 | −198.95 | −654.67 | 256.76 | 0.39 |