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From: Economic evaluation of advanced practice physiotherapy models of care: a systematic review with meta-analyses

Fig. 2

Funnel plots of health care costs per patient for advanced practice physiotherapy care compared to usual medical care in primary care, emergency departments and adult and paediatric orthopaedic care. Costs in euro 2020 (adjusted for inflation & converted). Health care costs measured in included studies: salaries, diagnostic tests, medication prescriptions and follow-up care with a 2 to 12 months time horizon. CI: Confidence intervals; IV: Inverse variance method; Obs: Observational study; RCT: Randomized controlled trial; SD: Standard deviation. McGill, 2017: Only the between-group differences (APP vs UMC) in health care cost were reported in the original study. Ó Mír et al., 2019: UMC comparison group is based on imputed costs

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