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Table 4 Costs (€) and consumption of healthcare resources and sick-leave during 6 months.

From: Costs of shoulder pain and resource use in primary health care: a cost-of-illness study in Sweden

Direct costs

Mean number of

visits

Total number

Cost per

patient

Total costs

General Practitioner

0.89 (0.97)

181

95 (105)

19429

Physiotherapy

3.91 (7.40)

798

195 (369)

39825

X-ray*

0.28 (0.45)

57

18 (29)

3719

Ultrasound*

0.11 (0.31)

23

14 (39)

2857

Medicine*

0.28

58

4 (6)

718

Total healthcare costs

  

326 (389)

66548

Indirect costs

    

Sick-leave**

9.04 (29.17)

1844

1743 (5626)

355610

Total costs

  

2069 (5730)

422158

  1. N = 204. Means (SD) or total numbers are presented
  2. * Number of patients given prescriptions for medicine, x-rays or ultrasound
  3. ** Days