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Table 3 Description of approaches used to measure and value implementation costs within the included papers

From: Implementation costs of hospital-based computerised decision support systems: a systematic review

Paper

Method (valuation)

First author, year, (reference)

Human

Things

Space

Afshar, 2019 [23]

Unclear (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Unclear (market price)

✗

Agulnik, 2019 [24]

Unclear (actual salary)

Unclear (market price)

✗

Castellanos, 2013 [25]

Unclear (not reported)

✗

✗

Field, 2012 [26]

Activity diaries (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

✗

✗

Forrester, 2014 [27]

Unclear (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

✗

✗

Swart, 2020 [28]

Unclear (actual salary)

✗

✗

Vermeulen, 2014 [31]

Unclear (actual salary)

✗

✗

Westbrook, 2015 [29]

Activity diaries, interviews (actual salary)

Estimated over time horizon (market price)

Rental opportunity cost (market price)

Zimlichman, 2013 [30]

Unclear (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

✗

✗

  1. The humans, ‘things’ and space costing framework [20] was applied