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Table 5 Average Total health care costs divided for types of costs, care costs and societal costs for HD in Euros (10.6 exchange rate) for the pasts 6 months based in the complete sample (n = 86)

From: Health related quality of life, service utilization and costs for patients with Huntington’s disease in Norway

Type of care

Six-month HD costs

Mean

SD

Primary care (n = 85)

1227

2138

Home care (n = 86)

1796

8416

Nursing homes (n = 86)

9592

18,752

Rehabilitation (n = 84)

2848

3746

Secondary care (n = 85)

239

429

Specialists (n = 86)

190

696

Hospital (n = 86)

2255

10,016

Total Health Care costs (n = 84)a

18,538

22,423

 Out-of-pocket (n = 85)

83

244

 Informal care (n = 84)

30,605

127,820

Total Care costs (n = 82)b

47,594

136,682

 Social services (n = 85)

1

12

 Production loss (n = 84)

18,907

13,734

Total Societal costs (n = 80)c

66,789

139,334

  1. aInclude primary care, home care, nursing home care, rehabilitation, secondary care, specialists and hospital care bincludes total health care costs, out-of-pocket and informal care, cincludes all social services and production loss in addition to all other cost types reflected in total health care costs and total care costs