Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
Research
Direct Medical Costs of 3 Reportable Travel-Related Infections in Ontario, Canada, 2012–2014
Rachel D. Savage
, Laura C. Rosella, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Maureen Horn, Kamran Khan, Laura Holder, and Monali Varia
, Laura C. Rosella, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Maureen Horn, Kamran Khan, Laura Holder, and Monali Varia
Table 6
Total direct and attributable medical costs of hepatitis A, malaria, and enteric fever, Peel region, Ontario, Canada, 2012–2014*
| Category | Peel region |
Ontario |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. case-patients | Total direct costs, $ | Cost per case-patient, $, mean (range) | Cost per control, $, mean (range) | Attributable cost (95% CI), $ | No. case-patients | Total direct costs, $† | ||
| Overall 90-d cost |
318 |
2,058,196 |
6,472 (0–59,358) |
375 (0–42,213) |
6,098 (5,328–6,868) |
1,216 |
7,870,341 |
|
| By disease | ||||||||
| Hepatitis A | 55 | 306,707 | 5,576 (0–59,358) | 560 (0–42,213) | 5,016 (2,414–7,619) | 300 | 1,672,944 | |
| Malaria | 122 | 613,488 | 5,029 (0–38,556) | 471 (0–26,598) | 4,558 (3,557–5,558) | 612 | 3,077,497 | |
| Plasmodium vivax | 43 | 230,487 | ND | ND | 4,812 (2,675–6,949) | ND | ND | |
| P. falciparum | 59 | 297,106 | ND | ND | 4,743 (3,588–5,898) | ND | ND | |
| Other | 20 | 85,895 | ND | ND | 3,463 (1,397–5,528) | ND | ND | |
| Enteric fever |
141 |
1,138,002 |
8,071 (0–33,563) |
219 (0–13,824) |
7,852 (6,812–8,893) |
304 |
2,453,566 |
|
| Restricted to most relevant costs | ||||||||
| Hepatitis A | 55 | 233,771 | 4,250 (0–23,048) | 266 (0–10,163) | 3,984 (2,823–5,145) | 300 | 1,275,117 | |
| Malaria | 122 | 611,030 | 5,008 (0–37,335) | 361 (0–17,626) | 4,647 (3,593–5,701) | 612 | 3,065,171 | |
| Enteric fever | 141 | 1,029,311 | 7,300 (0–33,563) | 211 (0–13,824) | 7,089 (6,097–8,081) | 304 | 2,219,224 | |
*Cost given in 2015 Canadian dollars. Attributable cost indicates the additional cost for each case-patient. ND, not determined.
†Extrapolated by multiplying the number of cases in the province reported to Public Health Ontario for the same period by the mean cost per case-patient estimated by using Peel region data.
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