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Table 6 Health care cost estimates

From: The Quit Benefits Model: a Markov model for assessing the health benefits and health care cost savings of quitting smoking

 

Costs*

Disease state

Males

Females

AMI

  

   Hospital admission

$10,200

$8,800

   Remainder of Year 1

$3,400

$2,700

   Year 2 and later

$1,400

$1,400

Stroke

  

   First 30 days

$5,900

   Remainder of Year 1

$11,600

   Year 2 and later

$4,500

Lung cancer

  

   On diagnosis (transition costs to lung ca)

$23,400

   Year 1 and later

$5,000

   Terminal care (transition cost to death)

$7,000

COPD

  

   Annual cost

$2,200

  1. * 2001 Australian dollars