Cost-effectiveness of a health-social partnership transitional program for post-discharge medical patients

Table 2 Cost of intervention and healthcare services

		Study case			Control case
Intervention costs	N	Unit cost ($)	Total cost ($)
Pre-program training cost
Volunteers	251	456	114408
Social worker (SWA)	2	194	388
Nurse (RN)	3	633	1899
Program cost
Nurse case manager (NO)	272	467	127159
Volunteer	272	131	35508
Extra social services	22	251	5528
Patient time cost	272	178	48360
Readmission costs	N	Unit cost ($)	Total cost ($)	N	Unit cost ($)	Total cost ($)
Emergency admission
28 days	13	820	10660	31	820	25420
84 days	28	820	22960	63	820	51660
Bed day cost
28 days	30	3650	109500	144	3650	525600
84 days	100	3650	365000	329	3650	1200850
Total readmission cost per subject :
28 days			442			1947
84 days			1426			4426

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