TABLE 5.

Estimated lifetime costs from a societal perspective of the most expensive complications from measles, mumps and rubella

	Total cost per patient
	Encephalitis (1995 dollars)*	Deafness (1995 dollars)†‡	CRS-mental retardation (1995 dollars)‡
Direct costs
Consultations	652	31	546
Hospitalization	8,453	0	0
Investigations	0	6,600	46
Allied health workers	0	109	93
Medication	0	0	0
Medical equipment	0	10,386	0
Total	9,105	17,126	685
Indirect costs
Days missed from work
Caregivers and patients	893	88,213	4,196
Long term disability	0	21,428	21,428
Total	893	109,641	25,624
Direct nonmedical costs
Special schools	0	156,000	0
Institutionalization	1,961,291	94,789	904,278
Rehabilitation	0	186	887,125
Total	1,961,291	250,975	1,791,403

^*Complication due to measles;

^†Complication due to mumps;

^‡Complication due to rubella. CRS Congential rubella syndrome