TABLE 3.
Activity-Based Costs and Cost per Fecal Immunochemical Test Kit Returneda
| Total Costs and Cost per Kit Returned | Cost, $ | Cost per FIT Kit Returned, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention development phase (create process to identify eligible patients, develop and translate materials, train staff, create processes for mailing and processing FIT kits) | 21,910 | 13.63 |
| Intervention implementation phase (select patients and mail FIT kits and 50th birthday letters, conduct FluFIT and MammoFIT sessions, track returned FIT kits, refer for diagnostic follow-up) | 30,148 | 18.76 |
| Administration and management (execute contracts, conduct oversight meetings, hire or recruit staff, generate reports on intervention progress) | 6785 | 4.22 |
| Data quality assessment (conduct initial quality assessment, including review of patient charts; provide technical assistance to improve data; monitor data quality) | 5134 | 3.19 |
| Total | 63,978 | 39.81 |
Abbreviation: FIT, fecal immunochemical test; FluFIT, flu shot clinics at which free FIT kits were distributed; MammoFIT, mammography screenings at which free FIT kits were distributed.
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Note that clinical costs were $6.25 to purchase a kit and $9.38 for laboratory procedures to process each kit.