Table 3 Estimated costs associated with... | American Society of Hematology

Table 3

Estimated costs associated with HIT care in pre-intervention and avoid-heparin phases

	Additional costs/case ($)*	Pre-intervention phase, 2003-2005		Avoid-heparin phase, 2007-2012
	Additional costs/case ($)*	Cases/year	Cost/year ($)	Cases/year	Cost/year ($)
HIT negative	119	123.7	14 716	91.7	10 908
HIT without thrombosis	4 575	10.0	45 750	3.5	16 012
HITT	34 155	7.7	261 855	0.8	28 462
Total			322 321		55 383

	Additional costs/case ($)*	Pre-intervention phase, 2003-2005		Avoid-heparin phase, 2007-2012
	Additional costs/case ($)*	Cases/year	Cost/year ($)	Cases/year	Cost/year ($)
HIT negative	119	123.7	14 716	91.7	10 908
HIT without thrombosis	4 575	10.0	45 750	3.5	16 012
HITT	34 155	7.7	261 855	0.8	28 462
Total			322 321		55 383

Costs are given in 2007 Canadian dollars.

From a cost-of-illness study performed at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.¹⁵