Resource use: mean (SD) per patient per year | Cost: £ mean (SD) per patient per year | |||||
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Clinic patients n = 62 | Telephone patients n = 84 | Source of valuation | Clinic patients n = 62 | Telephone patients n = 84 | Bootstrapped cost difference, £ (P-value) | |
Routine nurse administration time (mins) | 25.58 (13.29) | 14.81 (5.00) | Netten & Curtis | 13.22 (6.86) | 7.65 (2.58) | 5.59 (<0.001) |
Routine clinical time (mins) | 55.16 (21.86) | 20.48 (22.25) | Netten & Curtis | 28.50 (11.29) | 10.58 (11.50) | 17.99 (<0.001) |
Total routine care | 41.72 (13.59) | 18.23 (11.55) | 23.63 (<0.001) | |||
Medication | ||||||
Number of inhalers | 12.21 (9.94) | 10.99 (9.68) | BNF | 209.65 (246.40) | 157.02 (195.37) | 52.63 (0.306) |
Number of tablets | 35.02 (96.32) | 16.98 (45.58) | BNF | 8.57 (44.38) | 4.76 (32.16) | 3.93 (0.648) |
Total medication | 218.22 (252.00) | 161.78 (195.45) | 55.74 (0.309) | |||
Non-routine consultations (n) | 2.65 (4.05) | 1.61 (2.69) | Netten & Curtis | 37.42 (56.19) | 24.40 (40.90) | 13.15 (0.250) |
Length of inpatients stays | 0.08 (0.52) | 0.01 (0.11) | NHS reference costs | 36.49 (237.39) | 5.43 (49.76) | 30.95 (0.524) |
Total non-routine care | 73.91 (272.89) | 29.83 (64.04) | 44.15 (0.275) | |||
Total | 333.85 (410.64) | 209.85 (220.94) | 122.35 (0.071) |
SD = standard deviation. BNF = British National Formulary.