Looking back to move forward: a twenty-year audit of herpes zoster in Asia-Pacific

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 6 Herpes zoster hospitalisation rates, durations and associated healthcare costs in Asia-Pacific countries

Country (source)	Study period	Age profile (years)	Hospitalisations (100000 person years)	Hospitalisation duration (days)			Healthcare costs (US$ equivalent)^c
				Overall average	Complications		Per patient		Annual total (millions)
					None	With	Outpatient	Inpatient
Taiwan (Lin 2010) [136]	2000–2005	All ages	14.6	8.3	8.0	8.6			7.7 in 2000 → 9.8 in 2004 (NT$ 319,000,000)
Taiwan (Lin 2010) [136]	2000–2005	≥80	105.1					204.0	7.7 in 2000 → 9.8 in 2004 (NT$ 319,000,000)
Taiwan (Jih 2009) [137]	2000–2006	All ages	16.1	8.3			78.4	1800.3	0.669773 (NT$ 14,147,543)
		0–20		6.06					0.669773 (NT$ 14,147,543)
		≥60	59.5% of total	9.19					59.5% of total
Korea (Cheong 2014) [96]	2009	≥50 years	88.8^d	10.93		14.75^e	176.0 (161.0–240.0^f)		63.2
Australia (Stein 2009) [104]	1998–2005	≥50 years	28.0^a	6.8^a	6.0	8.6 (5.2–14.6^b)		3922.2^a	27.5
Australia (Stein 2009) [104]	1998–2005	≥80	95.8
Thailand (Aunhachoke 2011) [30]	2007–2008	Mean 59					90.4 (by 180 days follow-up)		~1.1% per capita income
Korea (Choi WS) [140]	2003–2007	All ages	22.0–32.0						75.9 increasing by 14–20% per year to 143.8
Australia (MacIntyre 2003) [102]	1998–1999	Mean 69	25.0	12.7
		>50	53.0% of total
		≥80	>150.0
Korea (Song 2014) [25]	2009–2010	Mean 64		8.9
Korea (Kim YJ) [138]	2011	All ages	51.2
Korea (Kim YJ) [138]	2011	≥80	266.3
Australia (Carville 2010) [147]	2006–2007	All ages	9.1^a
Australia (Carville 2010) [147]	2006–2007	≥80	89.4^a
Australia (Araújo 2007) [7]	2000–2002	All ages	10.0^a
Australia (Heywood 2014) [2]	2006–2010	All ages	10.4

^aPrincipal diagnosis of herpes zoster
^bHerpes zoster encephalitis
^cValues not already stated in US$ equivalent, converted at average annual exchange rate in year prior to publication
^dBased on prevalence rate of 18.54/1000 persons
^ePost-herpetic neuralgia
^fSeverely immunocompromised

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