Unit costs of healthcare resource use items and other costs
| Item | Unit cost £ | Details |
| GP visit | 43 | Cost of a GP consultation assumed to last for 11.7 minutes [7] |
| Referral to community respiratory team | 76 | Community and Outreach Nursing Services: Specialist Nursing (CN203DAF) [6] |
| Referral | 136 | Average of a general medical referral (£150) and a general surgical referral (£121), sourced from outpatient attendance data [6] |
| Hospital inpatient stay | 1350 | Average of 10 COPD-related HRG codes, across all inpatient settings [6] |
| Antibiotic prescription | 8 | Average of 10 most commonly occurring antibiotics reported by the analysis |
| Treatment of infection | 791 | Average of three commonly occurring CPRD infections codes, sourced from total HRG data [6] |
GP: general practice; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HRG: health resource group.