Table 3.

Estimated Health Provider Cost of Providing Antibiotics to Medical Inpatients in Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

	Prestewardship Program	Poststewardship Program
	2017 US$	2017 US$
Mean cost per patient (95% CrI)
TB ward	5.14 (3.68, 6.59)	4.16 (3.00, 5.31)
Male medical ward	7.31 (6.34, 8.28)	5.90 (5.08, 6.72)
Female medical ward	6.53 (5.54, 7.52)	5.23 (4.45, 6.02)
All medical inpatients	6.79 (6.15, 7.44)	5.23 (4.45, 6.01)
Total cost per annuma
TB ward	4313.74	3491.69
Male medical ward	33 783.43	27 268.02
Female medical ward	25 960.97	20 806.89
All medical inpatientsb	67 058.14	51 566.60

Abbreviations: CrI, credible interval; TB, tuberculosis.

^aBased on admissions/year: 840 for TB ward; 4620 for male medical ward; and 3975 for female medical ward.

^bTotal annual cost for all medical inpatients, estimated from summing total annual costs for each ward.