Table 4—

Mean total 2-yr costs (in 2007 euros) per patient for different categories of resource use after multiple imputation

	INTERCOM^#	Usual care^¶	Difference	95% CI
General practitioner	163	175	-12	-59–36
Specialist	570	610	-40	-178–101
Physiotherapist	1290	265	1025	882–1167
Dietician	70	20	50	24–77
Respiratory nurse	147	22	125	106–145
Hospital admissions	2944	3353	-408	-2084–1365
Diet nutrition	320	31	290	118–486
Prescribed medication	3532	3318	214	-239–667
Oxygen use	196	57	139	-13–304
Other direct medical costs⁺	2911	2148	763	-1207–2909
Subtotal direct healthcare costs	12145	9998	2147	-1091–5649
Costs paid by the patient^§	423	486	-63	-472–269
Subtotal direct costs	12568	10484	2084	-1198–5614
Productivity costs	997	330	667	-124–1566
Total costs	13565	10814	2751	-631–6372

INTERCOM: INTERdisciplinary COMmunity-based chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management programme. ^#: n = 87; ^¶: n = 88; ⁺: other direct medical costs included costs of visits to other therapists, alternative therapists, social workers and psychologists, home care, ambulance transportation, pulmonary rehabilitation, psychiatric hospital admissions and medical devices; ^§: costs paid by the patient included costs of over the counter medication, paid and unpaid household help and travel expenses.