Table 4 Overall cost per one chest X-ray film and Tuberculin Skin Testing
From: Tracing contacts of TB patients in Malaysia: costs and practicality
Resources | Cost (MYR) | Cost (USD)* | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Chest X-ray | |||
Human resources cost | 5.06 | 1.59 | 24.1 |
Capital costs | 1.98 | 0.62 | 9.4 |
Consumable costs | 2.15 | 0.68 | 10.3 |
Overhead costs | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.2 |
Total cost | 9.23 | 2.90 | - |
Tuberculin Skin testing (TST) | |||
Human resources cost | 2.23 | 0.70 | 10.6 |
Consumable costs | 9.57 | 3.0 | 45.4 |
Total cost | 11.8 | 3.70 | - |
Total cost per one contact tracing (Chest-X ray + TST) | 21.03 | 6.60 | 100 |