Direct costs of community-acquired pneumonia for hospitalized children in Shanghai, China from 2018 to 2020: a cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an acute respiratory infection with a high clinical and economic burden. Clarifying the burden is important for health policy making. However, there is inadequate data on the economic burden of childhood CAP in China. In this study, the direct disease burden of CAP in children was analyzed using city-level data.

Methods

A cross-sectional study of the direct costs of CAP for hospitalized children aged 28 days to 18 years old in Shanghai from January 2018 to December 2020 was performed. Information, including the hospitalization costs from the first page of the children's hospitalized medical records, was obtained. The direct costs included medical services, diagnostics, medications, and medical supplies. The continuous variable

SUBMITTER: Ye Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10080487 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature