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. 2011 Sep 14;11:81. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-81

Table 2.

Indirect costs

GLOBAL
Mean ± SD (Median)
ROTAVRIUS
Mean ± SD (Median)
OTHERS
Mean ± SD (Median)
p
Job
N° of hours of lost work 19.60 ± 25.36 (10) 28.1 ± 28.9 (20) 15.6 ± 22.9 (8) < 0.001
N° of days of lost work 2.45 ± 3.17 (1,25) 3.5 ± 3.6 (2.5) 1.9 ± 2.9 (1) < 0.001
Costs (€) 91.41 ± 134.76 (40) 120.4 ± 154.1 (72.5) 75.8 ± 123.3 (28.4) 0.002
Travels
N° of Kms. 56.08 ± 113.46 (20) 79.3 ± 158.7 (26.5) 46.7 ± 92.8 (18) 0.050
Costs of travelling (€) 18.66 ± 55.30 (7) 32.1 ± 92.1 (14.8) 12.5 ± 21.1 (5) 0.005
Caregiver (€) 14.70 ± 41.40 (0) 14.8 ± 44.4 (0) 15.7 ± 41.4 (0) 0.873
Meals
N° of meals outside home 5.47 ± 7.46 (2) 8.2 ± 7.8 (6) 4.1 ± 7.1 (1) 0.003
Cost meals (€) 33.33 ± 51.35 (10) 48.5 ± 55.9 (40) 24.3 ± 46.8 (0) < 0.001
Material (€) 34.4 ± 30.7 (27,7) 34.3 ± 25.9 (28.4) 34.0 ± 33.5 (27.0) 0.921
Oral Serum (€) 9.88 ± 9.95 (8,90) 10.2 ± 12.3 (8.5) 9.7 ± 9.03 (8.6) 0.617
Special milk (€) 11.52 ± 21.01 (3,15) 10.2 ± 18.9 (0) 12.6 ± 23.3 (3.3) 0.305
Anti-diarrheal (€) 3.46 ± 5.21 (0) 3.5 ± 5.8 (0) 2.7 ± 4.6 (0) 0.224
Extra diapers (€) 11.89 ± 12.70 (10) 12.3 ± 9.7 (10) 11.2 ± 14.1 (8.5) 0.368
Creams (€) 4.43 ± 6.38 (3) 3.2 ± 4.4 (0) 4.9 ± 7.1 (3) 0.016
Other materials (€) 7.0 ± 12.74 (2,53) 6.01 ± 10.1 (0) 7.8 ± 4.1 (3) 0.197
Other expenses (€) 14.34 ± 92.43 (0) 12.1 ± 39.3 (0) 17.3 ± 19.5 (0.8) 0.711
TOTAL INDIRECT COSTS (€) 135.17 ± 182.70 (67) 192.7 ± 219.8 (99,5) 111.6 ± 163.5 (54,3) < 0.001

"Global" represents all patients included in the study. P values are provided for comparison between rotavirus and other etiologies subgroups.