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Table 2 Estimated Hospital Cost per Patient, by dizziness diagnosis

From: Dizziness at a Canadian tertiary care hospital: a cost-of-illness study

 

All Diagnoses

Meniere’s disease

Benign paroxysmal vertigo

Other peripheral vertigo

Vertigo of central origin

Dizziness and giddiness

Total Hospital Cost

N

12,186

230

1936

1736

45

8239

Direct Cost

$ 310.97

$ 300.15

$ 263.77

$ 300.32

$ 509.38

$ 323.52

Indirect Cost

$ 139.04

$ 136.97

$ 123.04

$ 134.10

$ 217.91

$ 143.47

Mean Total Cost

$ 450.01

$ 437.12

$ 386.81

$ 434.42

$ 727.29

$ 466.99

SD

$ 1333.68

$ 712.49

$ 655.19

$ 964.34

$ 932.92

$ 1521.21

Median

$ 317.11

$ 285.04

$281.52

$ 315.04

$ 473.09

$ 326.29

Q1

$ 228.70

$ 205.03

$ 212.75

$ 228.19

$ 297.88

$ 235.30

Q3

$ 443.65

$ 406.67

$ 399.51

$ 429.70

$ 698.47

$ 454.88

p-value*

 

0.8824

0.0230

0.5991

0.1623

0.0423

Admitted from ED

N

129

2

19

23

2

80

Mean

$ 4101.38

$ 1735.86

$ 3805.13

$ 3686.29

$ 2969.02

$ 4260.22

SD

$ 6532.64

$ 642.22

$ 3665.74

$ 2324.23

$ 3961.14

$ 7214.41

Median

$ 2861.56

$ 1590.21

$ 2293.12

$ 4264.65

$ 2969.02

$ 2935.57

Q1

$ 883.11

$ 1178.98

$ 1099.23

$ 1860.48

$ 168.07

$ 853.96

Q3

$ 5018.84

$ 2438.40

$ 5448.42

$ 4931.35

$ 5769.97

$ 5041.15

p-value*

 

0.5283

0.8437

0.8196

0.8060

0.5668

ED Only

N

11,964

225

1908

1700

43

8091

Mean

$ 358.77

$ 342.47

$ 328.02

$ 357.07

$ 480.63

$ 366.23

SD

$ 213.87

$ 225.84

$ 181.41

$ 201.34

$ 288.84

$ 221.79

Median

$ 314.45

$ 282.87

$ 277.94

$ 310.53

$ 416.52

$ 323.41

Q1

$226.53

$ 205.03

$ 212.13

$ 226.72

$ 280.14

$ 233.65

Q3

$ 432.80

$ 396.39

$ 391.50

$ 419.85

$ 643.61

$ 445.80

p-value*

 

0.2483

0.0000

0.7234

0.0003

0.0000

Inpatient Only

N

93

3

9

13

0

68

Mean

$ 6978.94

$ 4017.94

$ 3972.52

$ 5544.31

NA

$ 7644.99

SD

$ 9991.16

$ 302.60

$ 1807.99

$ 7720.98

NA

$ 11,115.67

Median

$ 4079.30

$ 4116.57

$ 4334.98

$ 2245.52

NA

$ 4126.79

Q1

$ 1797.33

$ 3678.33

$ 2935.32

$ 2010.41

NA

$ 1664.68

Q3

$ 6094.54

$ 4258.92

$ 5090.27

$ 4723.13

NA

$ 6786.39

p-value*

 

0.6168

0.3613

0.6063

NA

0.2246

  1. *P-value relates to the variance in the mean diagnosis’ cost compared to that of all other diagnoses