Disease burden and related medical costs of rotavirus infections in Taiwan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 4 The direct medical cost for rotavirus acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in <5 years old children in Taiwan, 2001

Sector	Medical cost (in US $) per case	Total AGE		Estimated rotavirus AGE
		Case no.	Total medical cost	Case no.	Total medical cost
Outpatient	10.8	1,704,000	18,395,192	255,600–596,400^a	2,760,480–6,441,120
Inpatient	336.0	66,260	22,265,691	21,800–28,492^b	7,324,800–9,573,312
Total	-	1,770,260	40,660,883	277,400–624,892	10,085,280–16,014,432

^a The range of 15–35% was used for estimating outpatient rotavirus AGE case number based on Glass et al., (Reference [13]).
^b For estimation of hospitalized rotavirus AGE case number, 32.9% was used as the lower end based on the three hospital data in the present study and 43% was used as the upper end based on study of Chen et al (Reference [9]).

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