Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health - a feasibility study in Singapore polyclinics

Table 6 ^aCost of intervention components

MOTIVATIONAL CONVERSATION
Mean (SD) time in minutes for delivering one face to face MC session per high risk hypertensive individual	40 (21.5)
^bCost of delivering face to face MC per high risk hypertensive individual in Singapore $	12.1 (8.9 to 17.1)^c
TELEPHONE BASED FOLLOW-UP^d
^dMean (SD) time in minutes for telephone call by nurses per hypertensive individual	14 (18.7)
^eCost of telephone call by nurses per hypertensive individual in Singapore $	4.5 (3.4 to 6.2)^c
SUBSIDY ON FDC
Subsidy on fixed dose combination antihypertensive medication per high risk individual per week in Singapore $	1.4

^aThe computation accounts for direct costs only
^bAverage salary of midlevel nurses in the public sector clinic is used in the computation
^cThe parentheses represent the cost from junior nurse to senior nurse
^dNumber of hypertensive individuals who received telephone follow-up call after week 4 and week 8 were 45 and 40, respectively
^eThe cost of telephone call includes cost of nurses’ time plus telephonic charges

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