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Table 2 Summary of hospital-tailored implementation strategy activities and costs to implement a short stay programme for breast cancer surgery

From: A detailed report of the resource use and costs associated with implementation of a short stay programme for breast cancer surgery

 

Total

Hospital 1

Hospital 2

Hospital 3

Hospital 4

Expert centre

Type of implementation costs

Costs (€)

n (hours)

Costs (€)

n (hours)

Costs (€)

n (hours)

Costs (€)

n (hours)

Costs (€)

n (hours)

Costs (€)

Developmental costs

Expert meeting

           

Expert meeting at the expert centre

1.307

N.A

N.A

N.A

N.A

N.A

N.A

N.A

N.A

8

1.307

Educational meeting

           

Information provision to local project leaders

2.072

5

518

5

518

5

518

5

518

N.A

N.A

Subtotal

3.379

 

518

 

518

 

518

 

518

 

1.307

Developmental costs/execution costs

Multidisciplinary meeting

           

Plenary multidisciplinary team meetings

37.699

55.1

16.580

22.1

7.010

2

1.074

28.3

7.367

105

5.669

Small meetings (average 2.9 participants)

11.520

26.9

5.463

6.4

1.161

8.3

1.842

10.5

2.707

N.A

N.A

Meetings to adapt the guideline to the local level

9.923

25.3

2.418

50.3

4.087

0

0

23.7

3.287

1

131

Communication and media

           

Telephone conference

578

3.0

403

1.6

175

0

0

0

0

N.A

N.A

E-mail conference

290

0.7

55

3.5

235

0

0

0

0

N.A

N.A

Development of instruction leaflet

255

0.5

23

4.3

231

0

0

0

0

N.A

N.A

Travel costs

7.143

N.A

120

0

0

0

0

0

0

N.A

7.023

Subtotal

60.265

 

25.063

 

12.899

 

2.916

 

13.360

 

12.823

Execution costs

Education

           

Training staff at the expert centre

847

0

0

1

54

0

0

8

793

N.A

N.A

Clinical lectures given by the breast nurse from the expert centre

11.464

40

6.314

7.5

2.321

1

508

9.0

2.320

1.8

347

Incentive

           

Institution incentive

195

0.1

105

0

0

0

0

0.1

90

N.A

N.A

Subtotal

12.507

 

6.419

 

2375

 

508

 

3.204

 

347

Total

83.293

 

32.000

 

15.792

 

3.942

 

17.082

 

14.477

  1. Gross salary per hour (excluding social charges and housing costs): junior nurse, secretary, admission planner: €27,–; breast nurse, home care nurse, member patient support group: €30,–; anaesthetic nurse, senior nurse, social worker: €31,–; nurse practitioner, team leader, ward manager, phD student: €35−; staff advisor: €44,–; ICT expert: €47,–; financial advisor, implementation expert, cost-effectiveness expert, statistician: €51,–; division manager: €60,–; surgeon, anesthesiologist, radiologist, nuclear specialist: €69,–; project leader: €79,–. Costs are expressed in 2013 Euros