Table 8 Health resource use at T1 compared with T2 (hospital survivors only)
Hospital survivors n = 76 | Community survivors n = 38 | Hospital survivors T1 n = 29 | Hospital survivors T2 n = 29 | ||||||||||
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Health resource | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | M use | SD / 95% CI | M cost | Diff. T1 - T2 |
GP surgery consultation | 4.9** | 4.9 [3.7, 6.0] | 239 | 2.9 | 3.2 [1.8, 3.9] | 142 | 4.0 | 4.3 [2.5, 5.8] | 198 | 5.3 | 4.9 [3.4, 7.2] | 261 | -£63 |
GP phone consultation | 1.3 | 4.2 [0.3, 2.3] | 27 | 0.5 | 1.2 [0.1, 0.9] | 10 | 1.8 | 5.6 [0.2, 4.0] | 37 | 1.2 | 2.2 [0.3, 2.0] | 24 | £13 |
Practice Nurse consultation | 2.0 | 7.4 [0.2, 3.6] | 24 | 0.7 | 1.5 [0.3, 1.2] | 9 | 1.5 | 4.8 [0.2, 3.4] | 19 | 1.1 | 2.0 [0.3, 1.9] | 14 | £5 |
Community Psychiatric Nurse | 0.9 | 2.8 [0.2, 1.5] | 33 | 0.0 | 0.2 [0.03, 0.8] | 1 | 0.7 | 2.7 [0.3, 1.8] | 28 | 1.7 | 5.4 [0.3, 3.6] | 63 | -£35 |
Psychiatrist | 0.4 | 1.2 [0.1, 0.7] | 45 | 0.0 | 0.2 [0.03, 0.8] | 3 | 0.5 | 1.2 [0.0, 0.9] | 50 | 0.9 | 4.3 [0.7, 2.5] | 100 | -£50 |
Clinical Psychologist | 0.8 | 3.8 [0.1, 1.6] | 160 | – | – | – | 1.5 | 5.9 [0.7, 3.8] | 325 | 1.7 | 5.5 [0.4, 3.7] | 353 | -£28 |
Health Visitor | 2.0 | 9.2 [0.2, 4.9] | 106 | 1.0 | 3.0 [0.3, 1.9] | 53 | 0.7 | 1.9 [0.0, 1.5] | 38 | 0.5 | 1.8 [0.2, 1.1] | 25 | £13 |
Counsellor | 3.0** | 14.6 [0.4, 6.4] | 138 | 1.5 | 4.6 [0.0, 3.0] | 69 | 2.0 | 6.8 [0.5, 4.6] | 92 | 2.1 | 5.3 [0.1, 4.1] | 98 | -£6 |
Psychotherapist | 0.1 | 0.9 [0.1, 0.3] | 17 | 0.0 | – | – | 0.3 | 1.4 [0.3, 0.8] | 42 | 0.0 | – | 0 | £42 |
Family therapist | 0.0 | – | – | 0.1 | 0.3 [0.0, 0.1] | 8 | 0.0 | – | 0 | 0.1 | 0.7 [0.1, 0.4] | 21 | -£21 |
Drug/alcohol support | 0.9 | 3.5 [0.0, 1.6] | 66 | 0.2 | 0.7 [0.0, 0.4] | 12 | 1.1 | 3.2 [0.1, 2.3] | 83 | 1.5 | 5.0 [0.4, 3.4] | 120 | -£37 |
In-patient stay per night | 3.6** | 10.3 [1.2, 6.0] | 997 | 0.3** | 1.2 [0.0, 0.7] | 94 | 4.5 | 14.2 [0.8, 10.0] | 1238 | 0.0** | – | 0 | £1238 |
Outpatient appointments | 1.3 | 2.4 [0.7, 1.7] | 142 | 0.4 | 1.2 [0.0, 0.8] | 50 | 0.8 | 1.9 [0.3, 1.1] | 93 | 2.7 | 6.2 [0.3, 5.0] | 296 | -£203 |
A&E attendance | 1.0** | 1.4 [0.6, 1.3] | 118 | 0.4 | 0.6 [0.1, 0.5] | 46 | 0.9 | 1.4 [0.3, 1.4] | 107 | 0.4 | 0.9 [0.0, 0.7] | 50 | £57 |
Ambulance trip | 0.6* | 1.3 [0.3, 0.1] | 136 | 0.2* | 0.4 [0.0, 0.3] | 36 | 0.6 | 1.4 [0.0, 1.0] | 131 | 0.1 | 0.5 [0.0, 0.3] | 31 | £100 |
Total (95% CI) | £2248 (£1646 to £2977) | £533 (£373 to £713) | £2481 (£1731 to £3629) | £1456 (£192 to £2063 | £1025 (£182 to £2030) | ||||||||