Cost-effectiveness of steroid (methylprednisolone) injections versus anaesthetic alone for the treatment of Morton’s neuroma: economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial (MortISE trial)

Table 1 Unit cost (£) and source of health service use in the UK ^{a, b, c}

Health-care resource	Unit	Unit cost (£)^a	Details and source
Primary care contacts, e.g. general practitioner, practice nurse.	Consultation	12.30 to 84.86	Costed by profession^d
PAMs, e.g. physiotherapist, chiropodist, consultant radiologist	Consultation	12.30 to 51.65	Costed by profession^d
Hospital outpatient clinic e.g. orthopaedic, opthalmologist	Consultation	103.31 to 110.69	Costed by specialty^{d, e}
Hospital outpatient consultation with ultrasound scan	Consultation with scan	145.74	Cost including costs of consultant radiologist lasting 30mins, nurse lasting 30 minutes of client contact and an ultrasound scan^d,e
Hospital outpatient consultation with no ultrasound scan	Consultation with no scan	63.34	Cost of consultation lasting 30mins^e
Inpatient hospital stay	Procedure	154.96	Costed by procedure^e
Accident and emergency	Consultation	28.29	Costed by consultation^e
Steroid injection (1ml methylprednisolone (40 mg) and 1ml 2% Lignocaine)	Item	3.74	Costed by BNF entry^f
Anaesthetic injection (2ml of 1% Lignocaine)	Item	0.25	Costed by BNF entry^f

Legend: Table 1 Unit cost of health service use in UK pounds sterling (£)^a, with source^{b, c}.
PAMs: Professionals Allied to Medicines; BNF: British National Formulary.
^aCost year 2011/12.
^bNational Health Service costs including salary, employers’ costs, overheads and capital costs.
^cCosts extracted from Curtis and Netten [11] and Department of Health [10] have been inflated from 2004/05 to 2011/12 using Hospital & Community Health Service inflation indices from Curtis [12].
^dFrom Curtis and Netten [11].
^eFrom Department of Health [10].
^fFrom BNF [13].

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