N | Mean costs* (SD), $C | Median costs* (IQR), $C | |
Overall | 43 586 | 190.32 (1004.21) | 71.15 (117.50) |
Men | 175.67 (1136.25) | 70.32 (104.14) | |
Women | 206.94 (828.90) | 72.07 (144.33) | |
Physician office | 33 041 | 110.69 (188.83) | 67.58 (78.43) |
Men | 109.85 (191.23) | 67.69 (77.79) | |
Women | 111.55 (186.33) | 67.38 (79.36) | |
STI clinic | 6661 | 111.40 (125.56) | 79.38 (79.38) |
Men | 109.22 (126.88) | 79.38 (79.38) | |
Women | 117.60 (121.52) | 79.38 (119.07) | |
Hospital | 3129 | 1026.23 (2985.97) | 573.05 (458.46) |
Men | 1137.87 (3820.36) | 660.96 (376.54) | |
Women | 965.80 (2415.92) | 497.07 (490.66) | |
Physician office and hospital | 755 | 875.86 (3981.58) | 539.02 (603.53) |
Men | 1054.16 (5399.76) | 610.57 (642.10) | |
Women | 670.64 (707.28) | 485.60 (497.83) | |
Prescription drugs | 503 | 24.08 (21.43) | 21.21 (21.93) |
Men | 23.82 (23.04) | 21.06 (30.33) | |
Women | 24.58 (17.93) | 22.36 (20.17) |
*Costs in this table represent the average costs to manage an episode of AGW in those utilising each resource. For the Overall category, this is the mean cost of all resources used to treat an episode of AGW. The remainder of the categories are limited to the cost of the resource consumed (for example, the Physician office category represents only those who consumed office visits and is mutually exclusive from all other categories except Overall). IQR, interquartile range; STI, sexually transmitted infection.