Costs associated with office visits for diarrhea in infants and toddlers
| Autor: | John Long, Larry K. Pickering, David O. Matson, Stephen Whitney, Christine C. Matson, Pablo U Avendano |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Diarrhea Male Acute diarrhea medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Office Visits Office visits Population medicine.disease_cause Cost of Illness Rotavirus medicine Humans education education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Infant Texas United States Infectious Diseases El Niño Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Ambulatory Diarrhea Infantile Female medicine.symptom business Family Practice |
| Zdroj: | The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 12(11) |
| ISSN: | 0891-3668 |
| Popis: | We determined costs associated with diarrhea in a36-month-old ambulatory population. Children with acute diarrhea were enrolled during the rotavirus season at three centers. Questionnaires to assess costs of both medical and nonmedical factors were administered at the enrollment visit and 1 week later. Office computer records were reviewed to identify all visits by children with diarrhea during 1 year. Fifty-one patients were enrolled. The average cost per episode of diarrhea was $289, which included: $144, missed work; $57, office visits; $23, laboratory tests; $21, medications; $18, changed diet/oral rehydration solutions; $15, travel; $7, extra diapers; and $6, extra child care. During 1 year diarrhea accounted for 4% of all visits and 10% of visits among those36 months old. The annual cost at the three centers was $346,000, which extrapolates to $0.6 to $1.0 billion for the United States. Twenty-one percent of this cost was attributable to rotavirus diarrhea. We conclude that outpatient care for pediatric diarrhea is a major health care cost in the United States. |
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