From: An exercise intervention to prevent falls in Parkinson’s: an economic evaluation
Resource item† | Cost | Basis of estimate |
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Primary care | ||
General Practitioner (GP) surgery appointments | £36.00 | An 11.7 minute consultation |
General Practitioner (GP) home visits | £58.00 | A 23.4 minute visit |
Practice nurse (PN) surgery appointments | £11.00 | A consultation |
Community/district nurse (CN) visits | £26.00 | A home visit |
Hospital-based care | ||
*Acute hospital bed days | £213.20 | A bed day of inpatient rehabilitation for an elderly person (£205 inflated by 1.04) |
Day admissions | £138.00 | A day care service attendance for an elderly person |
Accident & Emergency (A&E) attendances | £111.00 | An A&E treatment |
Minor Injury Unit (MIU) attendances | £35.00 | An attendance at a non 24-hour A&E department/Casualty department |
Outpatient consultant appointments | £55.00 | A first-attendance appointment |
£71.00 | A follow-up attendance appointment | |
^Parkinson’s Disease specialist nurse (PDNS) appointments | £15.00 | A 15 minute consultation (using ‘Nurse advanced [includes lead specialist, clinical nurse specialist, senior specialist]) |
^Parkinson’s Disease specialist nurse (PDNS) visits | £16.66 | A 25 minute home visit (using ‘Nurse advanced [includes lead specialist, clinical nurse specialist, senior specialist]) at £40/hour |
Social care | ||
Social worker/community care manager assessments | £414.00 | An hour of face-to-face contact = £138 Average length of contact (from DCC info provided to QAQoL) = 3hours |
Hours of home care (per hour) | £19.30 | One hour of local authority organized home care |
Hours of day care (per hour) | £11.66 | A session = £35 |
Estimated 3 hours per session | ||
Days of residential care (per day) | £136.86 | Local authority care package for a short-term resident week = £958 |
Days of nursing care (per day) | £93.71 | Private care package cost for a short-term resident week = £656 |