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Table 3 Costs of clinical best practices over two hour observation period

From: A pre-pandemic COVID-19 assessment of the costs of prevention and control interventions for healthcare associated infections in medical and surgical wards in Québec

Clinical best practice costs

Median

Confidence interval

Median

Confidence interval

 

($)

2.5

97.5

$

2.5

97.5

Percentile ($)

Percentile ($)

Percentile ($)

Percentile ($)

 

N = 867

  

N = 1

  

Hand hygiene total cost

170.2

26.4

335.5

0.2

0.03**

0.4

 Human resource cost

159.7

20.0

321.9

0.2

0.02**

0.4

 Product cost

10.4

6.4

13.6

0.01**

0.01**

0.02

 

N = 102

($)

 

N = 1

($)

 

 Hygiene and sanitation of surfaces total cost

21.9

13.3

30.9

0.2

0.1

0.3

 Human resource cost

9.2

0.7

18.2

0.9

0.01**

0.2

 Product cost

12.7

12.7

12.7

0.1

0.1

0.1

 

N = 85

($)

 

N = 1

($)

 

 Cleaning of small equipment total cost

21.5

6.6

40.4

0.3

0.1

0.5

 Human resource cost

21.5

6.6

40.4

0.3

0.1

0.5

 Reusable materials *

      

 Products for disinfection*

      
 

N = 57

($)

 

N = 1

($)

 

 Additional precautions total cost

235.3

26.6

462.8

4.1

0.3

5.4

 Human resource cost

235.3

26.6

462.8

4.13

0.3

5.4

 

N = 720

($)

 

N = 1

($)

 

 Personal protective equipment (PPE) total cost

546.8

445.0

660.7

0.8

0.6

0.9

 Human resource cost

114.1

12.4

228.0

0.2

0.02**

0.3

 PPE material

432.7

432.7

432.7

0.6

0.6

0.6

 

N = 1831

($)

 

N = 1

($)

 

 Total clinical best practice costs for two hours of observation

996.2

518.3

1530.6

0.5

0.3

0.8

 Total clinical best practice costs per hour

498.1

259.2

765.3

0.3

0.1

0.4

  1. *There were insufficient (missing) data
  2. **For all results where values were below 0.05 we kept two decimal places to better represent the value