Vaccine-Preventable Hospitalisations from Seasonal Respiratory Diseases: What Is Their True Value?

ABSTRACT: Hospitals in England experience extremely high levels of bed occupancy in the winter. In these circumstances, vaccine-preventable hospitalisations due to seasonal respiratory infections have a high cost because of the missed opportunity to treat other patients on the waiting list. This paper estimates the number of hospitalisations that current vaccines against influenza, pneumococcal disease (PD), COVID-19, and a hypothetical Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, could prevent in the winter among older adults in England. Their costs were quantified using a conventional reference costing method and a novel opportunity costing approach considering the net monetary benefit (NMB) obtained from alternative uses of the hospital beds freed-up by vaccines. The influenza, PD and RSV vaccines

SUBMITTER: Neri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10220863 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature