Production loss and sick leave caused by antibiotic resistance: a register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse economic consequences of antibiotic resistance, both in health care systems and in society at large, have been estimated to emerge and significantly affect the global economy. To date, most studies of the societal costs of antibiotic resistance have had a macroeconomic perspective, using the number of attributable deaths as a quantifier for production loss. In contrast, there have been few studies of the consequences of antibiotic resistance in terms of the length of sick leave and hence the impact of morbidity on production loss. The aim of our study was to estimate the production loss from ill health caused by antibiotic resistance.

Method

To estimate additional production loss due to antibiotic resistance, we used Swedish register-based cohort data to d

SUBMITTER: Larsson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8932015 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature