Cost-Effectiveness of a 10-Years Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program Performing 200 cases/year
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This calculator can assume three different scenarios:
1) There is no hospital equipment, and everything must be bought anew (in
which case you can either accept the values already there, or enter your own)
2) All the capital equipment is already available (in which case you can delete
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3) Alternatively, you can add some Capital Costs and delete the values of the
ones you already have available at your center
In other words, you decide which capital cost to include in the costs. Same is true
for disposables and medicines. You can use our numbers or different ones.
Component 1: Capital Equipment Costs
Component 2: Capital Depreciation
Capital Depreciation = 3% per year of Value 1
(wear/tear, repairs, replacements)
Component 3: Disposable Materials and Medication for 200 patients
(Feel free to use our numbers or fill in with your own)
(Oxygenators, Tubing, Central and arterial lines catheters, Transducers,
Cannulas, Chest drainage system)
(Around $1407 per patient)
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Component 5: Annual Energy Costs
Energy Cost (you can accept our input, or enter your own)
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Electricity cost calculated @ $0.10 per Kilowatt / hr. (World average cost for electricity
was $0.14 for 2022)
10-Year Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program Cost
Value 1 + Value 3 + Value 4 + Value 5 = Value 6
Value 2 + Value 3 + Value 4 + Value 5) x 9years = Value 7
Value 6 + Value 7 = Value 8
Cost per Patient / DALYs Averted per patient
The Intervention is:
Reference: Robinson, L. A., Hammitt, J. K., Chang, A. Y., & Resch, S. (2017). Understanding and
improving the one and three times GDP per capita cost-effectiveness thresholds. Health Policy and
Planning, 32(1), 141-145.
