TABLE 3—

Cost Burden of Home Care Hours, by Type of Care and Illness Group

		Cost Burden, $
		HIV Group (n = 97)		Chronic Group (n = 101)		Healthy Group (n = 102)
Type of Care	Unit Cost per Hour, $	Mean Cost per Day	Mean Cost per Year	Mean Cost per Day	Mean Cost per Year	Mean Cost per Day	Mean Cost per Year
Technical care	. . .	22.04	8 044	44.03	16 071	2.11	768
Diagnostic procedures	14.59	4.59	1 673	23.70	8 651	1.53	559
Medications	22.68	14.36	5 243	6.53	2 384	0.46	166
Intravenous lines	22.68	0.00	0	0.23	84	0.00	0
Care of nasogastric or feeding tubes	22.68	0.79	286	6.41	2 341	0.00	0
Skin	14.59	0.01	3	0.33	118	0.01	3
Other tubes/equipment	22.68	0.00	0	1.04	381	0.00	0
Crisis	22.68	2.09	763	2.09	763	0.05	20
Other	22.68	0.20	73	3.69	1 346	0.05	19
Nontechnical care	. . .	20.09	7 334	40.92	14 936	21.80	7 957
Feeding	9.34	3.56	1 298	9.52	3 472	4.56	1 664
Bathing	9.34	1.94	708	2.49	909	1.34	488
Skin care	9.34	0.88	320	1.38	502	0.77	279
Grooming	9.34	1.64	599	2.88	1 053	1.94	706
Bowels/bladder	9.34	0.86	313	3.46	1 262	1.04	380
Using toilet	9.34	0.34	124	0.73	264	0.51	185
Getting around house	9.34	1.26	460	4.69	1 711	2.09	761
Getting other places	9.34	5.50	2 008	7.71	2 814	7.08	2 585
Transfer bed/chair	9.34	0.11	39	1.14	414	0.16	58
Laundry due to illness	8.02	1.27	462	1.83	669	0.41	147
Housecleaning due to illness	8.02	0.97	355	1.96	715	0.14	51
Dressing	9.34	1.02	370	2.57	937	1.28	467
Other	9.34	0.75	273	0.58	207	0.49	178
Health care management	. . .	10.84	3 908	13.34	4 868	3.59	1 311
Arranging care	22.68	5.14	1 851	6.64	2 424	1.79	653
Arranging finances/insurance	10.81	0.43	156	0.74	269	0.13	47
Education/training	22.68	1.73	623	1.61	588	0.86	314
Travel/waiting	10.81	3.37	1 215	3.60	1 315	0.68	248
Other	22.68	0.17	60	0.74	270	0.13	47
Total technical/nontechnical, all caregivers	. . .	42.13	15 378	84.95	31 008	23.91	8 725
Total care, all caregivers	. . .	52.97	19 335	98.34	35 897	27.50	10 036
Incremental cost after controlling for healthy children	. . .	25.47	9 298	70.84	25 860	. . .	. . .