As well as the anxiety about their child's health, they may have concerns about sibling care, employment and housing – not to mention finances, as the average additional cost of having a sick child in hospital is £282 a week.
Last month, consumer groups publicized a study showing that dealers arranging loans using Honda's financing subsidiary were twice as likely to charge markups to black buyers than white buyers, and that the average additional cost to the black buyers with marked-up loans was $1,108, compared with $698 for whites.
The average additional cost for NP was estimated to be as high as US$1255 per patient in 1982 [ 6].
It appears that the average additional cost for extracolonic findings at CTC is of the order of 20 50 USD averaged over all attendees [ 94– 96, 100, 101].
We aimed to measure the average length of stay (LOS) and the average additional cost incurred by a hospital when a patient develops fluid overload.
The average additional healthcare costs for children with sleep problems ranged from $141 (age 5) to $43 (age 7), falling to $98 (age 5) to $18 (age 7) per child per annum once family socioeconomic position, child gender, global health and special healthcare needs were taken into account.
Therefore, patients with SSI had on average $307 additional costs that would not have been captured by an infection control surveillance system limited to the inpatient setting.
The models showed that existing patients had, on average, an additional cost of 284 euros (95% CI: 88 – 479) compared with new patients.
The incremental cost-utility ratio was calculated as (ΔCostsE - ΔCostsC / ΔQALYE - ΔQALYC), where ΔCosts represents the average additional per capita costs and ΔQALY represents the number of QALYs gained over time, controlled for both confounding variables, in both the visiting service group (E) and the control group (C).
Although such data were collected during the course of the study, no attempt to calculate an average for these additional costs was made.
