Healthcare resource use and average costs (2011 value)
| Resourse use, mean (SD) | National unit costs, mean (SD) | Service provider costs, mean (SD) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (n=2 746) | Warfarin (n=1271) | No warfarin (n=1 475) | All | Warfarin | No warfarin | All | Warfarin | No warfarin | |
| Physician visits | 1.8 (3.0) | 3.3 (3.4) | 0.6 (1.8) | 130.37 (213.7) | 234.94 (242.3) | 40.27 (130.03) | 219.34 (359.52) | 395.24 (407.65) | 67.74 (218.76) |
| Physician phone consultations | 0.4 (1.0) | 0.8 (1.2) | 0.1 (0.6) | 8.43 (19.8) | 15.04 (24.9) | 2.73 (11.4) | 20.43 (48.08) | 36.46 (60.30) | 6.61 (27.54) |
| Nurse visits | 2.6 (5.6) | 4.8 (7.1) | 0.7 (2.7) | 81.18 (176.3) | 149.97 (223.4) | 21.91 (85.4) | 145.12 (315.17) | 268.08 (399.31) | 39.17 (152.75) |
| Nurse phone consultations | 2.8 (5.9) | 6.0 (7.5) | 0.2 (0.8) | 25.13 (52.03) | 52.61 (66.2) | 1.44 (7.2) | 53.35 (110.47) | 111.70 (140.58) | 3.07 (15.30) |
| Inpatient days | 10.9 (50.4) | 17.4 (59.5) | 5.2 (40.1) | 1795.19 (8327.84) | 2880.29 (9834.83) | 860.16 (6627.74) | 1661.10 (7705.83) | 2665.16 (9100.26) | 795.91 (6132.71) |
| INR tests | 8.8 (13.3) | 19.1 (13.7) | 0 (0.1) | 69.33 (105.5) | 149.75 (107.5) | 0.04 (0.6) | 122.04 (184.0) | 263.60 (189.3) | 0.07 (1.1) |
| Average total costs | 2109.62 (8352.22) | 3482.59 (9808.79) | 926.54 (6632.42) | 2221.37 (7764.31) | 3740.24 (9064.49) | 912.56 (6145.70) | |||
| Average outpatient costs | 314.44 (419.4) | 602.30 (424.2) | 66.38 (198.8) | 560.26 (744.60) | 1075.08 (750.65) | 116.65 (348.65) | |||
INR, international normalised ratio.