Direct healthcare costs of selected diseases primarily or partially transmitted by water.
Epidemiol Infect
; 140(11): 2003-13, 2012 Nov.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22233584
ABSTRACT
Despite US sanitation advancements, millions of waterborne disease cases occur annually, although the precise burden of disease is not well quantified. Estimating the direct healthcare cost of specific infections would be useful in prioritizing waterborne disease prevention activities. Hospitalization and outpatient visit costs per case and total US hospitalization costs for ten waterborne diseases were calculated using large healthcare claims and hospital discharge databases. The five primarily waterborne diseases in this analysis (giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, Legionnaires' disease, otitis externa, and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection) were responsible for over 40 000 hospitalizations at a cost of $970 million per year, including at least $430 million in hospitalization costs for Medicaid and Medicare patients. An additional 50 000 hospitalizations for campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, shigellosis, haemolytic uraemic syndrome, and toxoplasmosis cost $860 million annually ($390 million in payments for Medicaid and Medicare patients), a portion of which can be assumed to be due to waterborne transmission.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Otite Externa
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Doença dos Legionários
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Giardíase
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Custos de Cuidados de Saúde
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Efeitos Psicossociais da Doença
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Criptosporidiose
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Infecções por Mycobacterium não Tuberculosas
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Epidemiol Infect
Assunto da revista:
DOENCAS TRANSMISSIVEIS
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EPIDEMIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos