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Table 2 Mean annual costs per patient for highest and lowest cost scenarios across cohorts

From: The cost of systemic corticosteroid-induced morbidity in severe asthma: a health economic analysis

 

Non-asthma (n = 2411)

Mild/Moderate asthma (n = 3975)

Severe asthma (n = 808)

 

Low

High

Low

High

Low

High

Clinical activitya

£ 350 ± 546

£ 1111 ± 2372

£ 491 ± 630

£ 1579 ± 2902

£ 911 ± 907

£ 2799 ± 3705

Prescription drugsa

£ 210 ± 790

£ 212 ± 700

£ 487 ± 957

£ 493 ± 947

£ 1692 ± 2369

£ 1734 ± 2346

Total cost

£ 560

£ 1324

£ 978

£ 2072

£ 2603

£ 4533

  1. Six scenarios were created for clinical costs to capture uncertainty around the likely consultation to be costed (2 scenarios) and median, and IQ ranges (3 scenarios)
  2. aMean ± SD