Type of resource | Unit cost | Source |
---|---|---|
Implementation cost (one-time cost) | 13 620.00 | Estimated |
Hospital stay department of internal medicine (per day) | 4 643.00 | [26] |
Audit with specialist in infectious diseases (per four hours) | 2 348.00 | |
Resident physician in internal medicine (per four hours) | 1 536.00 | |
Materials used per dose of IV treatment | 15.70 | Assumption |
Nurse time (18 min per dose of IV treatment) | 95.22 | |
Nurse time (6 min per day for oral antibiotics) | 31.72 | |
IV antibiotics (average cost per day) | ||
- cefotaxim | 23.18 | [16] |
- bensylpenicillin | 36.00 | [16] |
- cloxacillin | 39.90 | [16] |
- ampicillin | 252.00 | Personal communication |
- piperacillin-tazobactam | 43.50 | [16] |
- imipenem | 83.25 | [16] |
- meropenem | 71.70 | [16] |
Oral antibiotics (average cost per day) | ||
- phenoxymethylpenicillin | 7.11 | [17] |
- amoxicillin | 3.15 | [17] |
- amoxicillin-calvulanate | 15.30 | [17] |
- dicloxacillin | 19.62 | [17] |
- ciprofloxacin | 5.20 | [17] |
- trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole | 5.65 | [17] |
- tetracycline | 8.35 | [17] |
- clindamycin | 14.73 | [17] |
- metronidazole | 7.10 | [17] |
- nitrofurantoin | 3.51 | [17] |
- pivmecillinam | 23.05 | [17] |