Cost of illness of atrial fibrillation: a nationwide study of societal impact

Table 5 Total and attributable cost at national level in years 1–3 after a first-time hospital diagnosis of atrial fibrillation

	Cost, year 1 (N = 15,237 AF patients)		Cost, year 2 (N = 11,403 AF patients)		Cost, year 3 (N = 9734 AF patients)		Sum, years 1–3
	Total*	Attributable**	Total*	Attributable**	Total*	Attributable**	Total*	Attributable**
Primary sector costs	3,380,355	3,131,643	1,379,417	1,179,182	732,007	774,842	5,491,779	5,085,667
Outpatient costs	26,019,512	23,363,782	6,460,893	4,425,880	3,883,182	1,979,153	36,363,587	29,768,816
Hospital admission costs	101,439,528	96,538,218	62,222,657	61,554,643	43,377,643	44,102,582	207,039,828	202,195,443
Medicine costs	2,569,889	2,183,094	2,116,885	1,771,149	2,041,190	1,807,702	6,727,964	5,761,946
Productivity loss	30,659,407	12,562,422	30,754,554	2,183,733	37,219,783	1,556,676	98,633,744	16,302,831
Home care costs	18,848,653	15,113,054	14,148,496	9,336,404	8,950,296	6,120,822	41,947,445	30,570,279
Total	182,917,343	152,892,214	117,082,902	80,450,991	96,204,100	56,341,777	396,204,346	289,684,981

*Total costs after AF diagnosis (including primary sector, outpatient, hospital admission, medicine, productivity loss and home care) minus the costs in the preceding year
**The total costs of AF minus the total costs among the controls
Data are from the latest available year with up to 3 years of follow-up (i.e. patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation in 2010). All costs are in euros and based on 2013 prices

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