Table 6.

Nursing cost (salary plus benefits) for a year of using a paper charting system compared to an automated clinical management system for immunosuppressive management

	Paper charting system	Automated clinical management system
Nursing cost/patient/year*	$1703 (1556 to 2350)	$197 (189 to 470)
Patients/year†	100	100
Total yearly nursing cost	$170 300 (155 600 to 235 000)	$19 700 (18 900 to 47 000)
Yearly savings on nursing cost		$150 600 (136 700 to 188 000)

^*From cost-effectiveness analysis.

^†Average projected transplanted patients to follow/year.