Costs and effectiveness of a culturally tailored communication training program to increase cultural competence among multi-disciplinary care management teams

Table 3 Base-case and Sensitivity Analysis Intervention Costs and Cost-effectiveness Ratios^a

Variable	Base-case	Nurse-only	Pharmacist-only	Support staff-only
Mean intervention costs, $	$138.51	$123.41	$194.49	$68.65
Mean effectiveness gained^b	0.41	0.27	0.83	0.56
ACER, $ per 1-unit increase in frequency of culturally competent behaviors (CCB)	$337.83	$457.07	$234.32	$122.59

Abbreviations: ACER average cost-effectiveness ratio, CCB culturally competent behavior subscale of cultural competence self-assessment
^aValues account for program delivery costs listed in Table 2
^bMean effectiveness gained is from the matched sample (n = 17) and uses the CCB subscale, as this was the only statistically significantly effectiveness outcome

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