Variable cost: consumables, medication, IOL, food, incentives & equipment with <100 US$ cost.
Differences within the systems include parameters such as operation (manual or automatic), handling (easy until cumbersome to use), and costs (e.g., expensive apparatus or high cost consumables).
Non-clinical GCEP resources included capital, overhead costs, consumables and manpower, of which only yearly total expenditures were available.
(2) Recurrent costs (consumables & salaries) - Recurrent costs include those items that have less than one year of life and largely consisted of human resource cost and cost of consumables like paper, cartridges, electricity etc.
Total cost encountered for these operations (including staff costs, consumables, anaesthesia and capital costs such as construction) equaled 1,280,000 THB (42,666 USD).
The costs associated with training general practitioners and pharmacists will also be assessed, including fixed costs, consumables, patients' time, locum cover and travel costs.
The mean total and component costs (consumables, inpatient management, and health care professional time) of each concept are shown in Figure 7. Inpatient management and material usage represent the largest contributors to the overall direct costs of dressing-related trauma.
Nevertheless, some techniques are complicated, laborious and/or time-consuming, while others require specialized equipment and/or high-cost consumable supplies.
Contrary, Hooi et al., [27] found for Malaysia that the personnel cost consumes 19%% of total cost while consumables and drugs consume 26%% of all costs.
For instance, in Malaysia Hooi et al. [ 23] found that the personnel cost consumes 18.9%% of total cost while consumables and drugs consume 26.4%% of all costs.
We also did not quantify all indirect costs, such as administrative costs (telephone, consumables), and the costs to the hospitals or to patients of poor quality of care, including adverse events.
