Cost of Dengue Illness in Indonesia across Hospital, Ambulatory, and not Medically Attended Settings.

ABSTRACT: Informed decisions concerning emerging technologies against dengue require knowledge about the disease's economic cost and each stakeholder's potential benefits from better control. To generate such data for Indonesia, we reviewed recent literature, analyzed expenditure and utilization data from two hospitals and two primary care facilities in Yogyakarta city, and interviewed 67 dengue patients from hospital, ambulatory, and not medically attended settings. We derived the cost of a dengue episode by outcome, setting, and the breakdown by payer. We then calculated aggregate Yogyakarta and national costs and 95% uncertainty intervals (95% UIs). Dengue costs per nonfatal case in hospital, ambulatory, not medically attended, and overall average settings were US$316.24 (95% UI: $242.30-$390.18)

SUBMITTER: Wilastonegoro NN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7646801 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature