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Table 1 Cost per receipt of medical utilization in total PTD (1000 KRW, 0.89USD)

From: Cost analysis of depression using the national insurance system in South Korea: a comparison of depression and treatment-resistant depression

 

Total cost

With depression code

(N = 834,694)

With suicide code

(N = 21,613)

Without suicide code

(N = 813,081)

mean ± SD

75.9 ± 499.4

127.3 ± 748.2

62.8 ± 345.2

77.8 ± 518.0

median (Q1, Q3)

15.0 (11.5,34.3)

29.1 (13.7,46.3)

15.0 (11.8,32.7)

15.0 (14.0,34.6)

Type of hospital

 Primary

25.5 ± 58.5

34.2 ± 63.4

25.3 ± 57.2

25.5 ± 58.6

 Secondary

172.2 ± 577.3

256.2 ± 706.3

159.1 ± 484.0

174.1 ± 589.7

 tertiary

178.7 ± 944.5

259.9 ± 1284.6

140.0 ± 655.3

183.6 ± 975.5

Specialty of physician

 Psychiatry

96.1 ± 547.7

96.1 ± 547.7

108.3 ± 428.1

94.6 ± 560.8

 Non-psychiatry

71.5 ± 488.3

164.8 ± 932.5

54.5 ± 327.1

74.1 ± 508.1

 hospitalization

1761.1 ± 2614.9

2097.4 ± 2968.9

1358.1 ± 1759.2

1817.0 ± 2707.7

 Outpatients visit

32.4 ± 67.9

38.4 ± 64.5

30.9 ± 58.2

32.7 ± 69.2

  1. PTD pharmaceutically-treated depression, SD standard deviation, Q1 first quartile, Q3 third quartile