Another notable issue is the result of repeated measures ANOVA in both patient groups.
We found no main effect of time in this analysis indicating that there are no significant
increments or decrements in the mean total costs, mean costs for medication products,
personnel and infrastructure costs. Based upon these results, we disagree with a previously
published recommendation of the “InEK” in Germany to reimburse the hospital costs daily
with step-wise decreasing remuneration . This model has been criticized in previous
publications. Since our data suggest that there is a high risk of inadequate remuneration
of SAD patients with longer duration of stay, we object the implementation the cost
accounting system in the daily clinical routine. However, there is still a paucity of evidence
regarding the exact factors influencing daily treatment resources needed in SAD and paranoid
SZ patients.