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Table 3 CEA with an intermediate outcome: cost per trainee who meets ART clinical performance standard

From: Cost-effectiveness analyses of training: a manager’s guide

 

Computer-based training and three-day workshop

Intensive two-week workshop and two on-site trainings

Cost of transfer of learning*

  

Cost of training

$12,025

$20,000

Cost of follow-up support by supervisors

$8,000

$2,000

Total cost of transfer of learning

$20,025

$22,000

Cost analysis

  

Trainees

25

25

Cost per trainee

$20,025/25 = $801

$22,000/25 = $880

Cost-effectiveness analysis

  

Trainees who meets ART clinical performance standard**

15

22

Cost per trainee who meet ART clinical performance standard

$20,025/12 = $1335

$22,000/23 = $1000

  1. *Transfer of learning includes both the training events and follow-up support.
  2. **The ART clinical performance standard is to perform 80% of the task correctly. According to this measure, the computer-based training was less effective.