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Table 4 Costs of the intervention, outpatient and emergency visits and inpatient hospital stay during 61 weeks

From: Supervised neuromuscular exercise prior to hip and knee replacement: 12-month clinical effect and cost-utility analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial

 

Intervention group (n = 84)

Control group (n = 81)

 
 

Mean difference (95% CI)

Intervention

 

Physiotherapy

326 (13)

0

326 (301 to 351)

Primary health care sector

 

General Practice

331 (28)

345 (29)

−14 (−92 to 64)

Physiotherapist

22 (10)

98 (61)

−76 (−197 to 45)

Specialists

99 (21)

97 (29)

2 (−68 to 72)

Chiropractor

2 (1)

6 (2)

−4 (−9 to 0)

Othera

75 (7)

83 (8)

−7 (−28 to 14)

Subtotal

530 (35)

629 (74)

−99 (−258 to 60)

Secondary health care sector

 

Outpatient

2240 (560)

1917 (317)

323 (−933 to 1579)

Emergency

12 (4)

32 (11)

−20 (−43 to 4)

Subtotal

2252 (557)

1949 (316)

303 (−949 to 1555)

Secondary health care sector

 

Orthopaedics

11760 (572)

11695 (1038)

66 (−2250 to 2382)

Surgeryb

280 (180)

773 (363)

−493 (−1285 to 300)

Medicinec

883 (322)

865 (350)

18 (−919 to 955)

Oncology

0

213 (170)

−213 (−547 to 120)

Otherd

150 (149)

189 (169)

−40 (−494 to 415)

Subtotal

13074 (706)

13735 (1249)

−662 (−3478 to 2154)

TOTAL

16181 (1174)

16313 (1374)

−132 (−3668 to 3405)

  1. Variables are expressed as the mean (bootstrap SE) per patient during the 61 week follow-up period and the mean difference (95% confidence interval) between groups. The monetary units are presented in EUR2012
  2. aOther, includes visits at the dentistry, laboratory or foot care clinic
  3. bSurgery, gastrointestinal, urology, plastic, thoracic
  4. cMedicine, internal medicine, cardiology, medical gastroenterology, neurology, geriatrics, general practice
  5. dOther, includes inhospital stay at oftamology, odontology or physiotherapy units