Table 4. Total annual utilization and economic costs for all patients.

Outcome	SmearStrategy	XpertStrategy	Difference	95% UncertaintyRange‡
Length of Stay *
Isolation room	632	328	304	281, 304
Standard room	749	1030	−281	−281, −257
Total	1,381	1,358	23	−23, 47
Costs †
Isolation room	$2,453,022	$1,241,370	$1,211,652	$990,756, $1,216,800
Standard room	$1,704,690	$2,335,320	−$630,630	−$645,500, −$585,936
Diagnostictesting	$3,510	$51,012	−$47,502	−$163,655, −$15,444
Total	$4,161,222	$3,627,702	$533,520	$370,188, $1,069,380

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^*In days;

^†In 2009 US Dollars.

^‡2.5–97.5% uncertainty range based on simultaneous sampling of all parameters of simultaneously drawn from triangular distributions bounded by the highest and lowest plausible input values for each variable in Tables 1 and 2.

Note that numbers displayed were subject to rounding.