| Baseline | Intervention |
Increment (intervention minus baseline) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention | |||
| Number receiving intervention | 7.87% | 15.67% | 7.80% |
| Intervention cost per patient receiving intervention | £33 | £35 | £2.30 |
| Intervention cost (£) | £2,611 | £5,562 | £2,950.91 |
| Resource impact | |||
| Admissions | 273 | 269 | −3.78 |
| Bed days | 1734 | 1726 | −7.51 |
| ICU/HDU referrals | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Cost impact | |||
| Stay costs (£) | £512,787 | £510,564 | −£2,222.44 |
| ICU/HDU costs (£) | £0 | £0 | £0.00 |
| Post-discharge costs (£) | £1,997,495 | £1,997,495 | £0.00 |
| Health outcomes | |||
| Deaths in hospital | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| Deaths in 30 days | 40 | 40 | 0 |
| Life-years | 15495 | 15495 | 0 |
| Cost effectiveness | |||
| Total costs (£) | £2,512,893 | £2,513,622 | £728.47 |
| Quality-adjusted life-years | 11623 | 11623 | - |
| Incremental cost per QALY gained (£) | - | - | Dominated |
From: Chapter 41, Cost-effectiveness analyses
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