Table 2.
Nurse contact to non-contact multipliers (ratios of nurses' contact time with patients to non-contact) and cost of contact, derived from work study of hospital at home staff
| Nurse grade | Baseline analysis
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Sensitivity analysis
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiplier | Cost per contact hour (£) | Multiplier | Cost per contact hour (£) | Cost per day (£)* | ||
| B | 1.8 | 14.30 | 1.2 | 9.54 | 188.60 | |
| D | 2.5 | 21.56 | 2.1 | 22.64 | 183.93 | |
| E | 4.0 | 49.08 | 2.1 | 26.99 | 161.60 | |
| G | 8.0 | 128.40 | 5.0 | 80.25 | 146.44 | |
*
These changes are sequential—this shows the impact of first changing the B grade value, then changing the D grade value (leaving B grade at new level) and so on.