Direct costs of managing in-ward dengue patients in Sri Lanka: A prospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The cost in managing hospitalised dengue patients varies across countries depending on access to healthcare, management guidelines, and state sponsored subsidies. For health budget planning, locally relevant, accurate costing data from prospective studies, is essential.

Objective

To characterise the direct costs of managing hospitalised patients with suspected dengue infection in Sri Lanka.

Methods

Colombo Dengue Study is a prospective single centre cohort study in Sri Lanka recruiting suspected hospitalised dengue fever patients in the first three days of fever and following them up until discharge. The diagnosis of dengue is retrospectively confirmed and the cohort therefore has a group of non-dengue fever patients with a phenotypically similar illness,

SUBMITTER: Sigera C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8500425 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature