Cost of specialist geriatric medical intervention.

aAll of the interactions assume involvement of geriatricians’ time only.bTime expressed in hours.cHourly wage based on the value of contract hour reported in PSSRU §15.5, p. 235 (PSSRU 2012 [26]), equal to £132.dEqual to Mean duration of interaction × Hourly wage.eIt was assumed that clinic visits last 17.2 minutes as in PSSRU §10.8b, p. 183 (PSSRU 2012 [26]).fIn the full sample (205 patients in the intervention group). Mean costs in complete-case sample and in other subgroups analysed are presented in Table 3 and S3 Appendix.Cost of specialist geriatric medical intervention.

a. 所有交互场景均仅假设占用老年医学医师（geriatrician）的工作时长；b. 所有时长均以小时为单位计量；c. 小时薪资依据公共社会服务研究单元（Personal Social Services Research Unit, PSSRU）2012年版文献[26]第15.5章节第235页报告的合同约定小时费率设定，为132英镑；d. 成本计算公式为平均交互时长与小时薪资的乘积；e. 本研究假设门诊就诊时长为17.2分钟，与公共社会服务研究单元（Personal Social Services Research Unit, PSSRU）2012年版文献[26]第10.8b章节第183页的设定一致；f. 全样本（干预组共计205名患者）的完整病例样本及其他分析亚组的平均成本详见表3与附录S3。本数据集为老年医学专科干预的相关成本数据。