Table 2 Clinical costs (health service perspective) for each treatment group.

From: Cost-effectiveness of scar management post-burn: a trial-based economic evaluation of three intervention models

 

Topical silicone gel **

Pressure garment therapy

Combined†

Mean (95% CI)

Mean (95% CI)

Mean (95% CI)⁋

Scar management Clinic labour*

$264.69

($233.70, 305.11)

$396.86

($343.77, $456.35)

$546.60

($364.12, $976.20)

Splints

$15.00

($8.65, $22.50)

$16.63

($10.28, $24.90)

$22.92

($14.46, $33.75)

Pressure garments

$6.08

($0, $22.96)

$913.53

($701.23, $1176.69)

$966.51

($617.16, $1646.68)

Topical silicone

$97.10

($81.39, $113.83)

$0

($0, $0)

$69.94

($58.10, $84.28)

Total scar management costs

$382.87

($337.52, $442.17)

$1327.02

($1082.61, $1634.40)

$1605.97

($1075.17, $2736.11)

  1. *Includes occupational therapist labour and allied health assistants; ** Intention to treat analysis: 2 participants deviated from the topical silicone gel only (n = 1) or pressure garment only (n = 1) groups to receive combined topical silicone gel + pressure garment therapy. †Combined = pressure garment therapy + topical silicone gel ⁋95% confidence intervals (CIs; bias corrected) derived from bootstrap resampling (2000 replications).
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