Cost of Living with Parkinson’s Disease over 12 Months in Australia: A Prospective Cohort Study

Table 4

Resource utilization related to Parkinson’s disease over 12 months.

	Mild	Moderate–severe	value
Hospitalisations
Mean number of hospital admissions per person per year	0.60	1.29	<0.001
	SD 0.81	SD 1.29
Public hospital	0.11	0.62	0.01
	SD 0.32	SD 1.19
Private hospital	0.49	0.67	0.20
	SD 0.74	SD 1.12
Mean hospital LOS (days) per person per year	4.43	20.15	<0.001
	SD 6.77	SD 26.20
Public hospital LOS	0.86	10.83	<0.001
	SD 2.81	SD 24.06
Private hospital LOS	3.57	9.33	0.02
	SD 6.56	SD 16.58
Hospital transport (mean number times)
Ambulance (road + air)	0.11	0.58	0.01
	SD 0.32	SD 1.18
Private car	0.43	0.98	0.02
	SD 0.65	SD 1.39
Taxi	0.09	0.04	0.22
	SD 0.37	SD 0.19
Medical services (mean number of visits)
General practice	10.17	10.25	0.47
	SD 4.62	SD 4.35
Medical specialist Services	12.00	28.32	<0.001
	SD 9.66	SD 18.56
Imaging	4.50	2.98	<0.001
	SD 1.90	SD 1.53
Pathology	13.51	18.58	0.05
	SD 5.70	SD 16.92
Allied health services (mean number of visits)
Physiotherapy	7.11	10.06	0.15
	SD 12.66	SD 12.99
Podiatry	1.06	2.38	0.01
	SD 1.86	SD 3.09
Occupational therapy	0.34	0.83	0.06
	SD 0.76	SD 1.69
Speech therapy	0.03	0.56	0.04
	SD 0.17	SD 1.70
Psychology	0.03	0.30	0.04
	SD 0.17	SD 0.82
Dietetics	0.00	0.21	0.12
	SD 0.00	SD 1.07
Chiropractic	0.03	0.44	0.09
	SD 0.17	SD 1.81
Optometry	0.06	0.04	0.34
	SD 0.24	SD 0.20
Other	1	1.02	0.49
	SD 1.96	SD 2.57
Other medical services (dental) (mean number of visits)	1.11	0.25	0.08
	SD 4.15	SD 1.40
Home based care and community services (mean number of hours)
Formal care hours, nurse	—	7.00	—
		SD 30.94
Formal care hours, PCA	—	31.00	—
		SD 80.60
Informal care hours	96.2	775	0.01
	SD 354.53	SD 1492.37
Meals on wheels	11.89	89.00	0.05
	SD 50.58	263.41