On-site occupational health nursing services: estimating the net savings: Part I

1. The following question can be successfully answered with a well developed quantitative assessment model: Is more money likely to be saved from the services of an on-site occupational health nursing program than is expended in providing these services? 2. The focus of this evaluation should be restricted to the net cost savings from the direct substitution of on-site for off-site provision of occupational health nursing services by such programs. 3. The evaluation model requires estimates of five separate factors for each occupational health nursing service provided by such programs that directly substitute for its off-site provision.