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Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research

Assessment of Economic Burden of Concurrent Measles and Rubella Outbreaks, Romania, 2011–2012

Joseph Njau1, Denisa Janta, Aurora Stanescu, Sarah S. Pallas, Adriana Pistol, Nino Khetsuriani2, Susan Reef, Daniel Ciurea, Cassandra Butu, Aaron S. Wallace, and Laura ZimmermanComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J. Njau, S.L. Pallas, S. Reef, A.S. Wallace, L. Zimmerman); National Public Health Institute, Bucharest, Romania (D. Janta, A. Stanescu, A. Pistol); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tbilisi, Georgia (N. Khetsuriani); Center for Health Policies and Services, Bucharest (D. Ciurea); World Health Organization Country Office, Bucharest (C. Butu)

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Table 5

Estimated overall cost per case of measles, rubella, or congenital rubella syndrome during concurrent outbreaks, Romania, 2011–2012*

Cost type
 Cost per case (sensitivity analysis lower bound–upper bound; 2013 US $)
Measles
 Rubella, not CRS
 CRS
Household direct medical and nonmedical $71 ($21–$127) $19 ($6–$46) NA
Household indirect $63 ($47–$86) $42 ($34–$57) NA
Healthcare provider $264 ($237–290) $27 ($25–30) NA
National outbreak response $42 ($37–46) $42 ($38–47) NA
CRS cases direct medical NA NA $4,820 ($1,742–$7,191)
CRS cases lifetime discounted indirect NA NA $39,231 (UB: $80,195)
Estimated total societal/case $439 ($389–494) $132 ($118–$158) $44,051 ($40,973–$85,015)

*CRS, congenital rubella syndrome; NA, not applicable; UB, upper bound of sensitivity analysis.

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1Current affiliation: JoDon Consulting Group LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

2Current affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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