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Table 6 Mean 1-year costs for patients with and without specific number of crisis event categories

From: Costs of treating patients with schizophrenia who have illness-related crisis events

 

Number of types of crisis events

 

None

One only

Two or more

Three or more

Patients with event, N (%)

938 (60.2%)

481 (30.9%)

138 (8.9%)

29 (1.9%)

Mean 1-year cost of hospitalization per patient

$830

$6,912 *

$23,149 *

$33,199 *

Mean 1-year total mental health cost per patient

$11,739

$19,066 *

$35,385 *

$44,599 *

Mean number of days hospitalized

3.7

21.8

72.7

101.1

Mean number of hospital admissions

0.2

0.8

1.7

2.7

  1. * P < .01; P values based on non-crisis event group vs. each category: patients with only one type of crisis event, two or more types of events, and three of more types of crisis events.