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. 2021 Feb 24;4(2):e210055. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.0055

Table 3. Capital, Operating, and Personnel Costs, and Mean Cost per Minutea.

Characteristic Costs, CAD$
Mobile Integrated Health Care Ambulance
2018-2019 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017
Capital cost 173 645 3 440 115 3 122 588 3 056 410
Operating cost 45 214 1 022 418 1 075 126 888 305
Personnel cost
On-vehicle staff 562 476 32 290 254 30 608 375 29 952 734
Administration staff 110 119 3 931 758 3 888 056 4 021 170
Total cost 891 453 40 684 544 38 694 146 37 918 619
Service time, minb 126 750 4 525 558 4 712 833 4 112 852
Capital cost per min 0.066 0.142 0.141 0.141
Operating cost per min 0.357 0.226 0.228 0.216
Personnel cost per min 0.256 1.497 1.562 1.575
Mean cost per min 0.679 1.865 1.931 1.933
a

All costs were adjusted to 2019 Canadian dollars using the inflation rates published by Bank of Canada (1 CAD$ = $0.7537 US in 2019).

b

The service time is the total time on task from responding to the call to final disposition either on scene or at hospital.