From: Service use and costs for people with headache: a UK primary care study
Non-referred patients | Referred patients | All patients | ||||||||
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N (%) patients | Mean (SD) contacts/days | Mean (SD) cost | N (%) patients | Mean (SD) contacts/days | Mean (SD) cost | N (%) patients | Mean (SD) contacts/days | Mean (SD) cost | Weighted mean cost | |
GP contacts for all reasons | 209 (82) | 1.9 (1.6) | 36 (31) | 37 (79) | 2.5 (3.0) | 48 (57) | 246 (82) | 2.0 (1.9) | 38 (37) | 36 |
GP contacts for headache | 81 (32) | 0.5 (0.9) | 9 (16) | 21 (45) | 0.9 (1.5) | 17 (29) | 102 (34) | 0.5 (1.0) | 10 (19) | 9 |
Neurologist contacts | 10 (4) | 0.05 (0.3) | 8 (41) | 12 (25) | 0.3 (0.6) | 43 (86) | 22 (7) | 0.1 (0.4) | 13 (52) | 9 |
Other professionals | 40 (16) | 0.7 (2.2) | 21 (75) | 9 (19) | 0.4 (1.0) | 20 (55) | 49 (16) | 0.6 (2.0) | 21 (72) | 21 |
Medication | 190 (75) | – | 31 (89) | 40 (83) | – | 24 (56) | 230 (76) | – | 30 (84) | 31 |
MRI for all reasons | 13 (5) | 0.05 (0.22) | 16 (70) | 7 (16) | 0.16 (0.37) | 48 (114) | 20 (7) | 0.07 (0.25) | 21 (79) | 17 |
MRI for headache | 11 (4) | 0.04 (0.21) | 14 (64) | 7 (16) | 0.16 (0.37) | 48 (114) | 18 (6) | 0.06 (0.24) | 19 (75) | 15 |
CT for all reasons | 6 (2) | 0.02 (0.15) | 2 (16) | 10 (22) | 0.22 (0.42) | 23 (43) | 16 (6) | 0.06 (0.23) | 6 (23) | 2 |
CT for headache | 4 (2) | 0.02 (0.13) | 2 (13) | 8 (18) | 0.18 (0.39) | 18 (39) | 12 (4) | 0.04 (0.20) | 4 (20) | 2 |
Lost employment (full days) | 88 (38) | 2.2 (6.7) | 269 (1030) | 15 (36) | 2.8 (8.6) | 211 (604) | 103 (36) | 2.3 (7.0) | 261 (978) | 268 |
Lost employment (part days) | 90 (37) | 3.5 (9.4) | 200 (679) | 20 (48) | 5.1 (7.5) | 312 (523) | 110 (39) | 3.8 (9.1) | 217 (659) | 202 |
Total service cost | 237 (97) | – | 115 (163) | 43 (98) | – | 197 (174) | 280 (97) | – | 128 (167) | 117 |
Total cost | 240 (99.6) | – | 579 (1405) | 41 (100) | – | 729 (967) | 281 (99.6) | – | 601 (1349) | 582 |