Associations between informal care costs, care quality, carer rewards, burden and subsequent grief: the international, access, rights and empowerment mortality follow-back study of the last 3 months of life (IARE I study)

Table 3 Informal care (IC) costs and formal care costs of patients at the end of life in the last 3 months (US$)

	Informal care costs I			Informal care costs II*			Formal care costs^$		Percentage of total care costs that are informal care costs
	Mean	s.d.	Median	Mean	s.d.	Median	Mean	s.d.	Informal care costs I	Informal care costs II*
England	36,170	31,104	31,192	22,132	22,527	13,254	15,756	15,036	69.7%	58.4%
Ireland	43,760	36,930	36,398	26,767	25,477	18,604	29,210	24,231	60.0%	47.8%
USA	32,468	28,578	28,847	19,973	19,679	12,521	37,327	37,234	46.5%	34.9%
All countries	37,802	32,956	32,185	23,160	22,998	14,163	27,452	28,203	57.9%	45.8%

*Informal care cost II excludes the cost of “time spent ‘being on call’”
^$Formal care costs were calculated by combining resource use data with unit costs obtained from standard as explained in [19]

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