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Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006

Perspective

Cost-effectiveness of West Nile Virus Vaccination

Armineh Zohrabian*Comments to Author , Edward B. Hayes†, and Lyle R. Petersen†
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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Table A1

Cost components and probabilities of incurring a given cost for a patient with neuroinvasive West Nile virus illness used to estimate weighted average cost of illness

Cost category Average values in 2004 dollars* Probability of incurring given cost†
Inpatient treatment 19,197 1.00
Inpatient rehabilitation treatment 14,977 0.14
Outpatient hospital cost 316 0.32
Outpatient medical visits 426 1.00
Outpatient physical rehabilitation 3,859 0.22
Outpatient occupational rehabilitation 3,822 0.07
Outpatient speech therapy 556 0.01
Nursing home 8,113 0.04
Productivity losses, temporary 8,442‡ 0.40
Productivity losses, caregiver 2,406 0.26
Transportation cost 64 1.00
Miscellaneous 1,534 0.14

*Estimated from Zohrabian et al. (14). These estimates were in 2002 dollars and adjusted for inflation for 2004, i.e., the latest year for which the appropriate consumer price indices were available.
†Relative frequencies estimated from Zohrabian et al. (14).
‡Average number of days missed (estimated from Zohrabian et al. [14]) multiplied by the national average cost of a missed workday, including salary, loss of household services, fringe benefits, and payroll taxes.

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