Observed costs and health care use of children in a prospective cohort study on community-acquired pneumonia in Geneva, Switzerland

Keitel, K; Alcoba, G; Lacroix, Laurence Elisabeth; Manzano, Sergio; Galetto-Lacour, Annick; Gervaix, Alain

doi:10.4414/smw.2014.13925

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English

Observed costs and health care use of children in a prospective cohort study on community-acquired pneumonia in Geneva, Switzerland

ContributorsKeitel, K; Alcoba, G; Lacroix, Laurence Elisabeth; Manzano, Sergio

; Galetto-Lacour, Annick; Gervaix, Alain

Published inSchweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, vol. 144, w13925

Publication date2014

Abstract

Despite various efforts to estimate cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, only scarce information on the cost burden of paediatric community acquired pneumonia (CAP) exists. The objective of this study was to prospectively calculate direct and indirect costs associated with treatment of CAP from a society perspective in children between 2 months and 16 years of age seeking care at a tertiary hospital in Geneva, Switzerland between December 2008 and May 2010.

Keywords

Adolescent
Ambulatory Care/economics
Child
Child, Preschool
Community-Acquired Infections/economics
Cost of Illness
Direct Service Costs/statistics & numerical data
Drug Costs/statistics & numerical data
Female
Health Resources/economics/utilization
Hospital Costs/statistics & numerical data
Hospitalization/economics
Humans
Infant
Male
Pneumonia/economics
Prospective Studies
Severity of Illness Index
Switzerland

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de pédiatrie, gynécologie et obstétrique

Research groups

Etiologie des pneumonies et marqueurs inflammatoires chez l'enfant fébrile (183)

Citation (ISO format)

KEITEL, K et al. Observed costs and health care use of children in a prospective cohort study on community-acquired pneumonia in Geneva, Switzerland. In: Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 2014, vol. 144, p. w13925. doi: 10.4414/smw.2014.13925

Article (Published version)

Identifiers

PID : unige:55140
DOI : 10.4414/smw.2014.13925
PMID : 24706389

Journal ISSN0036-7672

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