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Table 1 Key Unit Costs to Value Resource Use During Trial (2016 Canadian Dollars)

From: Management of Persistent Epistaxis Using Floseal Hemostatic Matrix vs. traditional nasal packing: a prospective randomized control trial

 

Resource

Unit

Unit Cost

(2016 Canadian Dollars)

Source

Acute care

Physician Consult

Fixed

78.21

AHS Medical Benefits Procedure List(Version April 1st, 2016)

Physician procedure (control of epistaxis)

Fixed

125.00

Surgical ward

Day

994.0

AHS Financial Fiscal 2016

Medical ward

Day

1164

Merocel®

Each

28.50

OR Bulk price

Vaseline gauze

Each

8.50

Rapid rhino®

Each

180.00

Floseal®

Per 5 mL

326.83

Convalescence and Follow-up

Salinex

Per mL

0.15

Alberta BlueCross Drug Price List (Version 2016)

Polysporin

Per 28.3 g tube

2.94

Oral cephalexin 250 mg tablet

Per tablet

0.40

Oral clindamycin 300 mg tablet

Per tablet

0.44

Physician follow-up

Fixed

39.14

AHS Medical Benefits Procedure List (Version April 1st, 2016)

Productivity Costs

Wages lost

Per day

405.79

Government of Canada 2016 Census data