[Histonet] Thanks for info on H&E cost per slide

[Cazares, Ruth]

Thank you all for your information.  What was being asked of me was
specifically was reagent cost and tech labor. This is what I did:

 

I figured out how much alcohol, xylene, hematoxylin, eosin and clear-rite
was used every week for H&E staining, translated that into dollars per week.

Then I divided the total number of slides for the month by 4 weeks, (some
weeks are slower than others, that's why I used the monthly total divided by
4 weeks).

I then divided the reagent cost (weekly) by the number of slides (weekly),
and this gave me a per slide total.

 

To figure out the tech labor, I figured out how many actual hours are spent
producing H&E slides per week and divided the weekly slide total by this.
Then I took this total (slides per hour ) and then I divided the tech
average salary per hour by the slides per hour and this gave me a per slide
cost of tech labor.  I'm sure there must be an easier way but this worked
for me and I now have a nice chart in EXCEL showing all the numbers for
future reference.  If anyone sees a flaw in the way I did this please don't
hesitate to let me know.

 

 

Ruth Cazares

 




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