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Table 4 Excess total costs for all patients, excess cost per patient and lifetime costs for patients with first-ever stroke in western Sweden during 2008

From: Economic burden of stroke in a large county in Sweden

Cost item

  

Cost per 1,000 inhabitants

 

SEK

SEK

Costs all patients

  Inpatient care costs

280000

(31000)

190

(21)

  Outpatient care costs

22000

(2500)

15

(1.7)

  Municipal care costs

230000

(25300)

150

(16.5)

  Informal care costs total

39000

(4300)

25

(2.8)

  Productivity loss total

58000

(6300)

40

(4.4)

  Total costs

629000

(69000)

420

(46.2)

Cost per patient

  Average all patients

193

(21.2)

  

  Patients under 55 years

280

(30.8)

  

  Patients between 65–74 years

136

(15)

  

  ICD-10 code I61

202

(22.2)

  

  ICD-10 code I63

182

(20)

  

  ICD-10 code I64

161

(17.7)

  

Lifetime costs

  All patients

768

(84.5)

  

  Patients under 55 years

2447

(269)

  

  Patients over 85 years

423

(46.5)

  
  1. Total number of patients n = 3,074. Prices of year 2008 in thousand SEK and (€).
  2. Based on converting currency rate 1 June 2012 (1 SEK = €0,11).