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Table 5 Societal costs per patient during one year of the St. Olavs study

From: Cost consequences of task-shifting intravitreal injections from physicians to nurses in a tertiary hospital in Norway

 

Difference in mean

 

Cost categories

Physician

Nurse

p-value

 

Mean

Median

q25-q75

Mean

Median

q25-q75

Physician − Nurse

 

Hospital costs

1946

1971

1408—2534

1895

1657

1381—2485

51

0.053

Other healthcare

 costs

2057

739

591—1182

2 275

887

591—1182

-218

0.942

 Transport costs

960

766

253—1455

1 219

830

381—1478

-259

0.094

Sum

4963

3695

2603—5525

5 389

3981

2710—5698

-426

0.403

  1. q25 and q75 are percentiles
  2. P-values are calculated from Mann–Whitney U tests