Fig. 1
From: The cost of systemic corticosteroid-induced morbidity in severe asthma: a health economic analysis
Mean annual healthcare activity and prescription drugs costs. Mean annual healthcare costs by service group across cohorts (For a full list of activities grouped under each service, see Additional file 1: Table S4), along with asthma related and non-asthma related prescription drug costs. Costs are calculated as the average across High-Low cost scenarios; bar height represents the average of this annual cost per patient per group. ‘Other’ includes physiotherapists, psychiatrists, and opticians, among others and accounted for such a small proportion of total healthcare costs that it cannot be seen on the graph