Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006
Perspective
Cost-effectiveness of West Nile Virus Vaccination
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† |
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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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