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Table 1 Cost categories and their share in total cost (in Australian Dollars)

From: The effect of pre-existing health conditions on the cost of recovery from road traffic injury: insights from data linkage of medicare and compensable injury claims in Victoria, Australia

Service group

Count of items

%

Avg. cost of item

Sum of cost

%

Ambulance/Road accident rescue

848

1.34 %

$1423.29

$ 1,206,954

8.45 %

Hospital

1287

2.03 %

$4880.94

$ 6,281,771

43.96 %

Medical

21,818

34.47 %

$120.40

$ 2,626,989

18.38 %

Total cost of health-related services

   

$ 10,115,714

70.79 %

Total cost of non-health services

   

$ 4,173,459

29.21 %

Total cost of services

   

$ 14,289,173

100 %