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APPENDIX E
TABLE E-1. APPROXIMATE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SOME
EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES*
Study and
Agency Comments Cost
1. Respiratory Health Designed to test adequacy of $700,000 to
Effects of Sulfur current ambient air quality $1,000,000
Oxides and Respirable standards in protecting public annually.
Part iculates ~ "Six health. Began 1974 .
City Study" ~ . Interview 9000 adults every
NIEHS, EPA, Electric three years; 11,000
Power Research children in grades 1-6
Institute (EPRI). each year. Includes indoor-
outdoor air monitoring and
personal monitoring to
identify exposures. Data
collection to continue
through mid-1983.
2. Case-control Located 3000 cases from $1.3 million
study for bladder Surveillance, Epidemiology, above SEER
cancer-saccharin and End Results Program costs.
association. NCI/FDA. ( SEER) files, used 6000
controls . Control led for
smoking, occupat ion, et c .
3. Framingham Heart Prospective study for more FY 1980-83,
Study. NHLBI. than 30 years. Following 5000 $2.5 million
people in initial cohort, over three
5000 offspring. Includes years.
physiologic measures,
occupation,and geographic
information.
4. Honolulu Heart Prospective study of 8000 men $3 million
Study. NHLBI. of Japanese ancestry living over five-
on Oahu. Began 1965. Look for year period,
risk factors in a population ending in
with traditionally low levels 1984.
Of heart disease, and with
particular lifestyle and diet.
id for this ION comer ittee by Barbara Mandula. These costs are
only approximate.
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TABLE E-1 (cont'd. ). APPROXIMATE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SOME
EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES
5. National Will sample about 5000 $2 million.
Occupational Hazard industrial sites in U.S Twenty people
Survey. (NOMS II). Purpose is to estimate numbers in field for
NIOSH. of workers exposed to specific two years.
indust ria 1 compound s .
6. Retrospective Study 2000-10,000 people from $200,000-
cohort mortality an industrial plant to learn if $300,000,
study. NIOSH. they have died. Takes 15-20 in-house.
personyears, over a period of Includes
about three years. personnel,
industrial
hygiene work,
document ation,
travel,
computer
time.
7. Case-control Review 50-300 cases.
study, morbidity
or mortality. NIOSH.
8. Cross-sectional
medical study of
current workers.
NIOSH.
$50,000.
Covers costs
listed in
#6 above.
50 workers
with controls,
$20,000-
$50,000.
With 400-500
people, cost
is $200,000.
Covers costs
listed in
#6 above.
9. Contract between Study long-term health effects Companies
United Rubber Workers in workers in four companies contribute 1¢
Union and University that manufacture automobile per man-hour
of North Carolina tires. Includes retrospective worked (about
School of Public and prospective studies to $20 per year
Health. (Harvard relate exposure to health per worker).
University School effects. Began 1971. Pays
of Public Health Approximately 50,000 workers university
has similar program. ~ in UNC program. costs.
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TABLE E-1 (cont'd. ).
APPROXIMATE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SOM1:
EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES
=
St udy and
Agency Comment s Co s t
10. Po lybrominated Clinical studies on 5000 people $500 ,000 per
biphenyls. CDC. in Michigan exposed to PBB. year.
Follo~up on 1/4 of population Includes
each year. lab tests.
11. Love Canal. CDC. Special tests, laboratory Estimated
studies on 1000 residents and costs:
1000 controls. Proposed study. $4 million
to $6 mi [lion.
Does not
include
fo 1 1 ow-up
studies .
12 . Three Mi le Is land
(TMI) "Census e t' CDC.
Mt . St . He lens .
Two-page questionnaire on 37 ,000 $350,000.
people within five miles of TMI.
Precautionary.
Collection and evaluation of $700,000
data on admissions to emergency FY 1980.
In area or
Increase
rooms In 40 hospitals
volcano during 1980.
noted in transient respiratory
illness during two weeks follow-
ing eruption in areas where ash
greater than 1/2 inch. People
with bronchitis, asthma especially
affected. Planning long-term
follow-up.
14. National Since 1970. Eighty hospitals
Nosocomial Infections report each month.
Survey (NNIS). CDC.
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Costs CDC
$60,000 per
year.
Hospit al s
about $25,000
per year each.
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TABLE E-1. APPROXIMATE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SOME
EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES
Study and
_ Agency_ _
15. Study of St rat if fed random sample of 350 $15 million.
Efficacy of Nosocomial hospitals. Analyzed patient
Infect ion Control discharge records, 500 from 1970,
ARSENIC). CDC. 500 from 1976 for each hospital.
Collected data on program to
prevent nosocomial infections (NJ)
in 1976. (No program in 1970. ~
Looked for changes in incidence
of NI to correlate with
program.
16. Health Effects of Setting up data base of all $5 million
Low Level Radiation in workers from eight shipyards. over five-
Shipyard Workers. Will have about 500,000 year
DOE. individuals, including period.
about 50,000 women. Info`~a-
t ion on radiat ion history,
but also occupation, socio-
economic status, illness, etc.
Began 1978.
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