Cost item | Hospital care | Community Eye Care (C-EYE-C) | |||
Staff time per patient (min) | Cost per patient encounter ($AUD) | Staff time per patient (min) | Cost per patient encounter | ||
C-EYE-C clinic ($AUD) | Hospital follow-up if required (<3 months) ($AUD) | ||||
Staffing | 63 | 119.00 | 65 | 35.15 | 116.00 |
Administration | 13 | 21.00 | 18 | 11.11 | 21.00 |
Nurse | 25 | 13.00 | 2 | 1.53 | 13.00 |
Optometrist | 0 | – | 20 | 15.62 | |
Ophthalmologist | 25 | 73.00 | 2 | 3.45 | 73.00 |
On costs* | 12.00 | 3.44 | 9.00 | ||
Equipment | 3.00 | 2.42 | |||
Imaging (OCT, retinal camera, iCARE) | 3.00 | 2.42 | |||
Infrastructure | 38.00 | 8.70 | 38.00 | ||
Pharmacy (goods and services and pathology, including dilating drops) | 10.00 | 3.59 | 10.00 | ||
Other costs combined† | 28.00 | – | 28.00 | ||
Rent+utilities (optometrist only) | – | 5.11 | – | ||
Cost per patient (by clinic type) | 160.00 | 46.27 | 154.00 | ||
Average cost per patient | 160.00 | 90.80 |
*On costs=superannuation, worker’s compensation, long service leave and annual leave.
†Other costs combined=averaged costs per visit for operating room, pathology, prosthesis, ward supplies.
OCT, optical coherence tomography.