Volume 7, Number 7—June 2001
Research
A One-Year Study of Foodborne Illnesses in the Municipality of Uppsala, Sweden
Roland Lindqvist*
, Yvonne Andersson†, Johan Lindbäck†, Maria Wegscheider‡, Yvonne Eriksson‡, Lasse Tideström§, Angela Lagerqvist-Widh¶, Kjell-Olof Hedlund†, Sven Löfdahl†, Lennart Svensson†, and Anna Norinder#
, Yvonne Andersson†, Johan Lindbäck†, Maria Wegscheider‡, Yvonne Eriksson‡, Lasse Tideström§, Angela Lagerqvist-Widh¶, Kjell-Olof Hedlund†, Sven Löfdahl†, Lennart Svensson†, and Anna Norinder#
Table 4
Estimated costs per case of foodborne illness
| Cost per illness |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costs included | No. of personsa | Averageb no. of visits or days | Averageb SEKc ($) | Min. SEK | Max. SEK |
| Direct costs | |||||
| Doctor visits | 45 | 0.2 visits | 173 | 0 | 3,714 |
| Hospitalization | 19 | 0.2 days | 809 | 0 | 43,150 |
| Medicine | 21 | nad | 5.3 | 0 | 200 |
| Other costs | 23 | nad | 40 | 0 | 4,200 |
| Total direct costs | 76 | 1,027 (117) | 0 | 43,265 | |
| Indirect costs | |||||
| Loss of production | 122 | 1.3 days | 1137 | 0 | 17,934 |
| Total | 157 | 2,164 (246) | 0 | 55,221 | |
aNumber of persons who reported a cost for each of the items in the questionnaire.
bAverages based on 312 persons answering the questions in the standardized questionnaire.
c$1 = 8.81 Swedish Krona (SEK) (May 2, 2000).
dna = not applicable.
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