Table 3 Utilisation and cost of health care services for health coaching (HC) and usual care (HC) groups a
Utilisation | Cost | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean (se) | HC | UC | p-value | HC | UC | p-value |
N | 215 | 215 | 215 | 215 | ||
Health coach sessions | 7.2 (0.2) | N/A | $267 ($7) | - | N/A | |
General Practitioner visits | 11.2 (0.4) | 11.8 (0.3) | 0.188 | $446 ($14) | $470 ($14) | 0.188 |
Specialist visits | 1.6 (0.2) | 1.1 (0.1) | 0.004 | $88 ($7) | $61 ($5) | 0.004 |
Other health professionals | 2.2 (0.3) | 1.6 (0.2) | 0.048 | $104 ($10) | $81 ($8) | 0.048 |
Health services | 4.8 (0.4) | 5.1 (0.5) | 0.815 | $1,161 ($101) | $1,222 ($119) | 0.798 |
Medication | ||||||
• Cardiac system | 2.4 (0.1) | 2.5 (0.1) | 0.414 | $312 ($16) | $329 ($16) | 0.328 |
• Lipid modifying drugs | 0.8 (0.0) | 0.9 (0.1) | 0.486 | $474 ($17) | $492 ($16) | 0.616 |
• Antithrombotic agents | 1.6 (0.0) | 1.7 (0.0) | 0.462 | $385 ($14) | $394 ($15) | 0.593 |
• Drugs used in diabetes | 0.4 (0.0) | 0.4 (0.0) | 0.365 | $191 ($29) | $169 ($27) | 0.419 |
• Other medicines | 1.4 (0.1) | 1.3 (0.1) | 0.593 | $305 ($26) | $332 ($52) | 0.536 |
Hospital admittance/patient | ||||||
• MI/angina/CHF | 0.6 (0.1) | 0.5 (0.1) | 0.240 | $4,714 ($641) | $4,139 ($771) | 0.240 |
• Other causes | 0.9 (0.5) | 0.2 (0.1) | 0.054 | $2,127 ($558) | $846 ($214) | 0.043 |
• Total | 1.5 (0.5) | 0.7 (0.1) | 0.042 | $6,841 ($838) | $4,984 ($802) | 0.036 |
Total cost | $10,574 ($855) | $8,534 ($813) | 0.021 | |||