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Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
Research

Direct Medical Costs of 3 Reportable Travel-Related Infections in Ontario, Canada, 2012–2014

Rachel D. SavageComments to Author , Laura C. Rosella, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Maureen Horn, Kamran Khan, Laura Holder, and Monali Varia
Author affiliations: Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (R.D. Savage); University of Toronto, Toronto (R.D. Savage, L.C. Rosella, N.S. Crowcroft, K. Khan); ICES, Toronto (R.D. Savage, L.C. Rosella, L. Holder); Public Health Ontario, Toronto (N.S. Crowcroft); Peel Public Health, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (M. Horn, M. Varia); St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto (K. Khan)

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Table 5

Healthcare utilization by type of healthcare visit among case-patients with travel-related hepatitis A, malaria, or enteric fever, stratified by foreign-born status, Peel region, Ontario, Canada, 2012–2014

Population No. hospitalizations Length of hospital stay, d
 No. emergency department visits No. physician visits No. outpatients
Mean Median Range
All, n = 318 225 4 3 0–42 429 4,831 1,317
Hepatitis A 31 4 3 0–14 61 742 208
Malaria 75 3 2 0–42 118 1,488 427
Enteric fever
 119
 5
 4
 0–34
 250
 2,601
 682
Canada-born, n = 91
All 71 4 3 0–14 126 1,318 369
Hepatitis A 15 3 2 0–6 27 276 78
Malaria 16 2 2 0–8 30 293 85
Enteric fever
 40
 6
 5
 1–14
 69
 749
 206
Foreign-born, n = 227
All 154 4 3 0–42 303 3,513 948
Hepatitis A 16 5 4 0–14 34 466 130
Malaria 59 3 2 0–42 88 1,195 342
Enteric fever 79 5 4 0–34 181 1,852 476

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