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Tables
Table 13:
Examples of estimated average costs per NSI for hospitals
Author Country Year of
publication
Reference
Year
Average
cost of NSI
(in US $) 1
Jagger at al. [98] US 1990 1988 405
Gartner [48] US 1993 1990 373
Laufer and Chiarello
[99]
Terrell and Williams
[100]
Comment
US 1993 1991 363 Projection
US 1993 1991 320
Dale et al. [42] US 1998 1991 310
Mendelson et al.
[47]
US 1998 1991 636
Fassel et al. [56] US 1994 1992 531
Orenstein et al. [33] US 1995 1992 260
Dale et al. [42] US 1998 1995 561
Jagger et al. [101] US 1998 1995-97 672
(Hosp. A)
539
(Hosp. B)
California OSHA* US 1998 1998 (?) 2,234
3,834
Projection; two
different estimates
provided
by two manufactures
(J&J;
B&D)
ECRI [95] US 1998 1998 (?) 540 Projection
Hatcher [81] US 2002 1999 (?) 3,033 Used average of
the two California
estimates
Roudot-Thoraval
et al. [67]
France 1999 1998 1,796 Projection
Peate [68] US 2001 2001 1,035
Hofmann et al.
[102]
1) in US $, if not otherwise mentioned
325 real
Germany 2005 2004 (?) € 148 Projection; total
costs estimated
to be € 487
* Source: Tan et al. [10] and http://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/sharps2.html (2006-01-17)
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