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Table 2 Staff time and salary spent on ethical and site-specific approval for the two studies

From: The high costs of getting ethical and site-specific approvals for multi-centre research

Study

Staff member

Study year (PT for part-time)

Time (h)

Salary cost AUD $ (’000s)

National Hand Hygiene Evaluation

N1

Year 1

1322

81

 

Year 2

353

23

  

Year 3

353

25

 

N2

Year 1 (PT 8 months)

705

31

  

Year 2

1410

66

 

N3

Year 3

1763

81

 

N4

Year 3

881

41

 Total

  

6786

348

REACH Trial

R1

Year 1

113

6

  

Year 2

38

2

 

R2

Year 1 (PT 2 months)

102

4

  

Year 2 (PT)

348

13

 Total

  

601

25