ArticleJournal of health, population, and nutrition2010
Treatment costs of pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis, and other diseases among hospitalized children in Viet Nam.
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Role of CSF-CRPand Serum Procalcitonin in Differentiation Between Bacterial and Viral Meningitis in Children
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Clinical algorithm reduces antibiotic use among children presenting with respiratory symptoms to hospital in central Vietnam.Pneumonia (Nathan Qld.) · 2023Article
- Out-of-pocket expenditures and financial risks associated with treatment of vaccine-preventable diseases in Ethiopia: A cross-sectional costing analysis.PLoS medicine · 2023Article
- Estimating the economic burden of respiratory syncytial virus infections in infants in Vietnam: a cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- The Cost of Suspected and Confirmed Bacterial Meningitis Cases Treated at Jimma University Medical Center, Ethiopia.Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2022Article
- Direct Medical Costs of Tetanus, Dengue, and Sepsis Patients in an Intensive Care Unit in Vietnam.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- The cost of illness for childhood clinical pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease in Nigeria.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Household economic burden of childhood severe pneumonia in Bangladesh: a cost-of-illness study.Archives of disease in childhood · 2021Article
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- Multivariate risk and clinical signs evaluations for early-onset sepsis on late preterm and term newborns and their economic impact.European journal of pediatrics · 2020Article
- Household Costs Associated with Hospitalization of Children with Severe Pneumonia in Quito, Ecuador.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Burden of disease and economic impact of human Streptococcus suis infection in Viet Nam.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2019Article
- A multi-country study of the economic burden of dengue fever based on patient-specific field surveys in Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Cambodia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Patient-level cost of home- and facility-based child pneumonia treatment in Suba Sub County, Kenya.PloS one · 2019Article
- Treatment cost and costing model of obstetric complications at a hospital in Myanmar.PloS one · 2019Article
- Cost of Treatment of Febrile Acute Respiratory Infection (FARI) Among Under-Five Children Attending Health Facilities of Ballabgarh, Haryana.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2017Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to estimate the costs of treatment of children who present with the signs and symptoms of invasive bacterial diseases in Khanh Hoa province, Viet Nam. The study was an incidence-based cost-of-illness analysis from the health system perspective. The hospital costs included labour, materials and capital costs, both direct and indirect. Costs were determined for 980 children, with an average age of 12.67 months (standard deviation +/- 11.38), who were enrolled in a prospective surveillance at the Khanh Hoa General Hospital during 2005-2006. Of them, 57% were male. By disease-category, 80% were suspected of having pneumonia, 8% meningitis, 3% very severe disease consistent with pneumococcal sepsis, and 9% other diseases. Treatment costs for suspected pneumonia, meningitis, very severe disease, and other diseases were US$ 31, US$ 57, US$ 73, and US$ 24 respectively. Costs ranged from US$ 24 to US$ 164 across different case-categories. Both type of disease and age of patient had statistically significant effects on treatment costs. The results showed that treatment costs for bacterial diseases in children were considerable and might differ by as much as seven times among invasive pneumococcal diseases. Changes in costs were sensitive to both age of patient and case-category. These cost-of-illness data will be an important component in the overall evidence base to guide the development of vaccine policy in Viet Nam.
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