ArticleEpidemiology and infection2007
Estimating the burden and cost of infectious intestinal disease in the Maltese community.
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- The hidden costs: Identification of indirect costs associated with acute gastrointestinal illness in an Inuit community.PloS one · 2018Article
- Estimating healthcare costs of acute gastroenteritis and human campylobacteriosis in Switzerland.Epidemiology and infection · 2017Article
- Economic costs of outbreaks of acute viral gastroenteritis due to norovirus in Catalonia (Spain), 2010-2011.BMC public health · 2015Article
- Magnitude, distribution, and estimated level of underreporting of acute gastroenteritis in Jamaica.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2013Article
- Investigating the effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence in northeast China using ridge regression and hierarchical cluster analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2008Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to estimate the burden of infectious intestinal disease (IID) and cost of illness at the community level from a societal aspect. A retrospective, age-stratified cross-sectional telephone study was carried out in Malta in 2004-2005. The number of cases, resources used and cost of resources were computed. The resources involved direct costs (health-care services, stool culture tests, medicines and personal costs) and indirect costs (costs from lost employment by cases and caregivers). This study estimated 0.421 (95% CI 0.092-0.771) separate episodes of IID per person per year in Malta which corresponds to 164 471 (95% CI 35 941-301 205) episodes of IID per year or 450 (95% CI 98-825) episodes of IID each day. The largest proportion of cost is due to provision of health-care services with euro10 454 901 [Maltese liri (Lm) 4 558 970] per year; followed by euro963 295 (Lm 2 209 393) in lost productivity; euro1 286 286 (Lm 561 078) in medicines; euro152 335 (Lm 66 452) in stool culture testing and euro71 487 (Lm 31 183) in personal costs, giving a total cost of illness of over euro16 million (7 million Lm) per year. The burden and cost of IID are high enough to justify efforts to control the illness. Such estimates are important to assess the cost-effectiveness of proposed specific interventions.
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