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Table 1 Unit costs of each resource category (in SEK, 2015 price level)

From: A cost analysis of introducing an infectious disease specialist-guided antimicrobial stewardship in an area with relatively low prevalence of antimicrobial resistance

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

[12, 15]

Resident physician in internal medicine (per four hours)

1 536.00

[12, 15]

Materials used per dose of IV treatment

15.70

Assumption

Nurse time (18 min per dose of IV treatment)

95.22

Assumption and [1315]

Nurse time (6 min per day for oral antibiotics)

31.72

Assumption and [1315]

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]