Direct cost components |
Ambulance service (attendance and transportation, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | Calls to BC DPIC and transferred to hospital | Calls to BC DPIC and seen in ED | Calls to BC DPIC and attended by ambulance | Calls to BC DPIC and not attended by ambulance, seen in ED or transferred to hospital |
ED treatment (physician care, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | Ambulance service (attendance and transportation, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | Ambulance service (attendance and transportation, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | Ambulance service (attendance, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | |
Hospital care (physician care, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | ED treatment (physician care, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | ED treatment (physician care, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | | |
Coroner service and autopsy | Hospital care (physician care, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies) | Long-term medical care | | |
Funeral cost | Long-term medical care | Long-term rehabilitation | | |
Long-term rehabilitation | | | |
Indirect cost components |
Deaths | Hospital admission | | | |
Future income forgone from potential years of life lost and premature death | Time away from work due to hospital admission Years of disability resulting in forgone income | | | |