Healthcare Resource Utilisation Associated with Herpes Zoster in a Prospective Cohort of Older Australian Adults.

Herpes zoster (HZ) is a common condition that increases in incidence with older age but vaccines are available to prevent the disease. However, there are limited data estimating the health system burden attributable to herpes zoster by age.In this study, we quantified excess healthcare resource usag...

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Main Authors: Surendra Karki, Anthony T Newall, C Raina MacIntyre, Anita E Heywood, Peter McIntyre, Emily Banks, Bette Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4970804?pdf=render