Table 3 Cost of illness (direct costs) attributed to diabetic foot (2012 US dollars)
Description | All strategies | Sub-optimal care | Standard care | Standard care plus temperature monitoring | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Prevention strategy | |||||||
Cost per person | US$65 | US$185 | US$406 | ||||
Total people | 206,298 | 206,298 | 206,298 | ||||
Total cost of prevention | US$13,350,763 | US$38,129,966 | US$83,849,832 | ||||
Complications | Cost/person | No. of people | Total cost | No. of people | Total cost | No. of people | Total cost |
Hospital | |||||||
Healing with debridement | US$1,022 | 5416 | US$5,535,166 | 2979 | US$3,044,341 | 1148 | US$1,172,820 |
Healing with major amputation | US$7,360 | 3658 | US$26,921,264 | 2012 | US$14,806,695 | 775 | US$5,704,219 |
Healing with minor amputation | US$5,153 | 2897 | US$14,930,136 | 1594 | US$8,211,575 | 614 | US$3,163,476 |
Death with major amputation | US$7,360 | 981 | US$7,216,590 | 539 | US$3,969,125 | 208 | US$1,529,089 |
Death with minor amputation | US$5,153 | 777 | US$4,002,215 | 427 | US$2,201,218 | 165 | US$848,010 |
Subtotal | US$26,048 | 13728 | US$58,605,371 | 7551 | US$32,232,954 | 2909 | US$12,417,613 |
Outpatient | |||||||
Healing with outpatient visit | US$79 | 32032 | US$2,514,669 | 17618 | US$1,383,068 | 6787 | US$532,821 |
Total No. of people/Total cost of treatment | 45761 | US$61,120,040 | 25168 | US$33,616,022 | 9696 | US$12,950,435 | |
Total cost | US$74,470,803 | US$71,745,988 | US$96,800,267 | ||||