Quality of life and costs of patients prior to colorectal surgery

Figures & data

Table 1. Total resource use and costs (Euros) and Utilities.

	Users			Resource use per patient		Cost per patient(€)
	Unit	N	Percent	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Median	95%CI
Health Care Costs
General Practioner	Contact	121	67.97	1.62	2.25	53	80	33	[43, 66]
Medications	Various	122	68.53	-	-	107	269	9	[71, 149]
Outpatient clinic	Contact	151	84.83	4.8	4.51	385	345	320	[335, 436]
Allied health professionals	Contact	43	24.15	1.51	3.75	44	132	0	[27, 65]
Homecare	hour	18	10.11	4.26	19.05	149	779	0	[54, 277]
Hospital stay	Nightstay	36	20.22	0.93	3.01	420	1,336	0	[247, 633]
Emergency room visits	Contact	20	11.23	0.16	0.48	43	124	0	[26, 61]
Ambulance	Trip	7	3.93	0.06	0.37	41	231	0	[13, 79]
Diagnostics	Test	43	24.15	0.43	0.88	140	321	0	[96, 189]
Treatment	Procedure	25	14.05	0.12	0.33	365	1,209	0	[208, 556]
Total Healthcare costs		178	100			1,752	2,583	854	[1,403, 2,147]
Productivity costs
Paid homecare	hour	30	16.21	33.21	110.63	1290	4,010	0	[743, 1,888]
Inability to do Unpaid labour	hour	24	0.1297	12.44	46.28	168	730	0	[77,285]
Total Productivity Costs		46	0.2486			1,459	4,096	0	[894, 2,088]
Societal Costs						3,211	5,008	1164	[2,534, 3,936]
Utilities						0.88	0.15	0.90

*SD, standard deviation; CI, confidence interval (2.5th percentile, 97.5thpercentile).

Table 2. Costs(expressed in euros) and utilities of colorectal cancer patients according to gender and age.

	Male		Female			Age below 67		Age above 67
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	P value	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	P value
Healthcare costs
General practitioner	42	65	74	97	0.003	43	76	64	82	0.014
Medication	95	215	128	345	0.639	101	212	113	318	0.214
Outpatient clinic	380	349	394	341	0.745	379	357	390	334	0.562
Allied health professionals	41	138	50	122	0.672	39	121	49	143	0.386
Homecare	85	650	263	963	0.016	106	759	193	801	0.044
Hospital stay	466	1551	339	830	0.766	290	797	553	1716	0.142
Emergency room visits	34	111	60	144	0.125	34	96	52	147	0.582
Ambulance	48	272	28	130	0.946	47	279	34	170	0.977
Diagnostics	112	231	190	434	0.635	172	383	108	239	0.261
Treatment	481	1,407	160	698	0.794	480	1,254	248	1,156	0.870
Total Healthcare costs	1,787	2,784	1,690	2,201	0.513	1,696	2,309	1,810	2,849	0.411
Productivity costs
Paid Homecare	1,506	4,458	904	3,050	0.664	2,548	5,361	3	29	<0.001
Inability due to unpaid labor	171	843	164	472	0.262	203	661	132	797	0.185
Total Productivity Costs	1,678	4,546	1,068	3,132	0.780	2,752	5,414	135	797	<0.001
Societal costs	3,465	5,487	2,759	4,016	0.432	4,449	6,184	1,946	2,950	0.073
Utilities	0.92	0.12	0.82	0.16	<0.001	0.90	0.14	0.86	0.15	0.860

Table 3. Frequency of reported problems by dimension.

EQ-5D Dimension
Mobility	No problems	129 (80.1%)
	Slight problems	12 (7.5%)
	Moderate problems	18 (11.2%)
	Severe problems	1 (0.6%)
	Unable to	1 (0.6%)
	Total	161
Self-Care	No problems	155 (96.3%)
	Slight problems	3 (1.9%)
	Moderate problems	2 (1.2%)
	Severe problems	0
	Unable to	1 (0.6%)
	Total	161
Usual Activity	No problems	122 (75.8%)
	Slight problems	23 (14.3%)
	Moderate problems	11 (6.8%)
	Severe problems	2 (1.2%)
	Unable to	3 (1.9%)
	Total	161
Pain/Discomfort	No pain	101 (62.7%)
	Slight pain	39 (24.2%)
	Moderate pain	18 (11.2%)
	Severe pain	3 (1.9%)
	Unable to	0
	Total	161
Anxiety/Depression	No anxiety	128 (79.5%)
	Slight slight anxiety	26 (16.1%)
	Moderate anxiety	4 (2.5%)
	Severe anxiety	2 (1.2%)
	Unable to	1 (0.6%)
	Total	161