Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents a potentially severe illness with high incidence and significant economic impact. The estimated incidence varies from 1.6 to 13.4 cases/1000 inhabitants per year. Its burden of disease is attributed to high morbidity, mortality and serious health care ut...
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doaj-00b2a6345da740e1828a321c0e85f3d12020-11-25T00:12:40ZengSEEd Medical PublishersFarmeconomia: Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways2240-256X2012-09-0113313313910.7175/fe.v13i3.275295Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care settingMihajlo Jakovljevic0Vojislav Cupurdija1Zorica Lazic2Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology University of Kragujevac The Faculty of Medical Sciences Svetozara Markovica 69 34000 Kragujevac, SerbiaDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Faculty of Medical Sciences University of KragujevacDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Kragujevac Center for Pulmonary Diseases, Clinical Center Kragujevac, KragujevacCommunity-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents a potentially severe illness with high incidence and significant economic impact. The estimated incidence varies from 1.6 to 13.4 cases/1000 inhabitants per year. Its burden of disease is attributed to high morbidity, mortality and serious health care utilization and expenditure throughout the world. The identification of determinants of high treatment costs could help in defining strategies for their reduction and more efficient use of the existing resources. In this article, a review of the existing literature about CAP cost-of-illness is provided, together with some considerations about possible strategies to decrease CAP costs in the Serbian health care setting. Available reports from cost-of-illness trials of CAP are relatively scarce. Most of them highlight the high costs generated by treatment protocols, with important differences between inpatients and outpatients. The inpatient cases of CAP varies from 18 to 60%. The therapy represents 10 to 15% of the overall costs of CAP. The costs of CAP treatment among inpatients are 7.9 times higher than those in outpatients. In case of complications and prolonged length of stay, this difference could even be 17 to 51 times higher. Frequent hospital admissions could be avoided, which would reduce the costs of CAP treatment. An important precondition for successful cost containment would be higher adherence to clinical guidelines, particularly reflected through Pneumonia Severity Index-a (PSI) application. Thus, it would be possible to significantly reduce the length of stay in hospital, in majority of patients, without jeopardizing their health or influencing the clinical course of illness.https://journals.seedmedicalpublishers.com/index.php/FE/article/view/275community-acquired pneumoniacost of illness analysiscostshealth economicsserbia |
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Mihajlo Jakovljevic Vojislav Cupurdija Zorica Lazic Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting Farmeconomia: Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways community-acquired pneumonia cost of illness analysis costs health economics serbia |
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Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting |
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Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting |
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Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting |
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Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting |
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Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting |
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cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. review of the literature and possible strategies in the serbian health care setting |
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SEEd Medical Publishers |
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Farmeconomia: Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways |
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2240-256X |
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2012-09-01 |
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Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents a potentially severe illness with high incidence and significant economic impact. The estimated incidence varies from 1.6 to 13.4 cases/1000 inhabitants per year. Its burden of disease is attributed to high morbidity, mortality and serious health care utilization and expenditure throughout the world. The identification of determinants of high treatment costs could help in defining strategies for their reduction and more efficient use of the existing resources. In this article, a review of the existing literature about CAP cost-of-illness is provided, together with some considerations about possible strategies to decrease CAP costs in the Serbian health care setting. Available reports from cost-of-illness trials of CAP are relatively scarce. Most of them highlight the high costs generated by treatment protocols, with important differences between inpatients and outpatients. The inpatient cases of CAP varies from 18 to 60%. The therapy represents 10 to 15% of the overall costs of CAP. The costs of CAP treatment among inpatients are 7.9 times higher than those in outpatients. In case of complications and prolonged length of stay, this difference could even be 17 to 51 times higher. Frequent hospital admissions could be avoided, which would reduce the costs of CAP treatment. An important precondition for successful cost containment would be higher adherence to clinical guidelines, particularly reflected through Pneumonia Severity Index-a (PSI) application. Thus, it would be possible to significantly reduce the length of stay in hospital, in majority of patients, without jeopardizing their health or influencing the clinical course of illness. |
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