Wage cost per hour was multiplied by the number of hours per day (7.6 h for physicians and 7.5 for nurses). Wage cost per day was then divided by the average number of injections per day, giving the personnel costs per injection (Table 4).

Hospital costs per injection for physicians and nurses

Cost categoriesPhysicianNurse
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Training costs1.40.50.60.2
Injection personnel time costs20.07.115.25.5
Clinical support costs0.30.10.40.2
Support personnel time costs36.312.936.313.1
Medicine198.470.4198.471.8
Equipment excluding medicine19.16.819.16.9
Running expenses of operation premises6.22.26.22.2
Sum281.6100.0276.1100.0
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