Efficiency of the Austrian disease management program for diabetes mellitus type 2: a historic cohort study based on health insurance provider’s routine data

Table 5 Costs of care and medication

	2006			2009
	Enrolled patients (N = 314)	Non-participating patients (N = 11,885)	P Value	Enrolled patients (N = 314)	Non-participating patients (N = 11,885)	P Value
Outpatient care
Total no. of services recieved	138,47	135,51	<0.001	185,21	190,65	<0.001
Total costs of service recieved	€ 1.463,37	€ 1.291,17	<0.001	€ 1.987,97	€ 1.615,06	<0.001
Medication
Total no. of medication recieved	50,94	50,62	0,376	63,51	62,94	0,383
Total costs of medication recieved	€ 886,63	€ 901,77	0,195	€ 1.169,78	€ 1.206,64	0,086
Total costs of outpatient care and medication	€ 2.350,00	€ 2.192,94	<0.001	€ 3.157,75	€ 2.821,70	<0.001
Inpatient care
Average days spent in hospital (all patients)	3,90	4,26	0,883	3,75	6,03	0.381
Average costs für inpatient care*	€ 2.324,40	€ 2.538,96	n/a	€ 2.235,00	€ 3.593,88	n/a
Overall costs of care and medication	€ 4.674,40	€ 4.731,90	n/a	€ 5.392,75	€ 6.415,58	n/a

* Average costs for each day spent in hospital amounted to € 503 p.d. in 2006 and € 596 p.d. in 2009 (Embacher, 2010).
All variables were compared with the Mann–Whitney U-test.

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