Table 4. Crude and adjusted mean costs for resources utilized per episode of gastroenteritis (GE) and Influenza-like Illness (ILI).
| GE (N = 95) | ILI (N = 297) | ||||||||
| DCC+ | DCC- | DCC+ | DCC- | ||||||
| Resource | Cases1 n (freq2) | Costs mean € | Cases n (freq) | Costs mean € | Cases n (freq) | Costs mean € | Cases n (freq) | Costs (mean €) | |
| DHC | |||||||||
| Doctor | 41 (65) | 16.51 [11.09–21.92] | 41 (67) | 20.36 [14.04–26.69] | 31 (48) | 17.17 [11.38–22.96] | 31 (51) | 26.96 [18.18–35.74] | |
| Medication | 22 (29) | 1.81 [1.06–2.56] | 25 (30) | 2.45 [1.57–3.34] | 32 (44) | 5.04 [3.55–6.53] | 27 (37) | 6.5 [4.51–8.49] | |
| Laboratory | 8 (8) | 0.79 [0.25–1.32] | 8 (8) | 1.07 [.35–1.79] | 5 (5) | 0.88 [.12–1.64] | 2 (2) | 0.49 [.2–1.17] | |
| Hospital | 5 (6) | 22.99 [2.96–43.01] | 1 (1) | 6.22 [−6.13–18.57] | 2 (2) | 16.43 [−6.56–39.41] | 1 (1) | 11.41 [−11.47–34.29] | |
| Crude subtotal | 47 | 42.09 [18.62–65.57] | 46 | 30.10 [15.26–44.95] | 43 | 39.52 [14.26–64.77] | 37 | 45.36 [18.03–72.68] | |
| DNHC | |||||||||
| Transport3 | 41 (65) | 2.21 [1.42–3.00] | 41 (61) | 2.48 [1.68–3.29] | 31 (50) | 2.15 [1.38–2.92] | 31 (51) | 3.26 [2.11–4.41] | |
| Crude subtotal | 41 | 2.21 [1.42–3.00] | 41 | 2.48 [1.68–3.29] | 31 | 2.15 [1.38–2.92] | 31 | 3.26 [2.11–4.41] | |
| INHC | |||||||||
| Productivity loss parent | 32 (51) | 109.62 [66.34–152.90] | 16 (22) | 56.00 [27.5–84.5] | 16 (25) | 112.38 [50.47–174.3] | 8 (14) | 49.84 [14.39–85.29] | |
| Productivity loss partner | 25 (33) | 75.29 [43.12–107.46] | 11 (10) | 33.22 [12.88–53.56] | 9 (12) | 60.40 [17.47–103.33] | 4 (5) | 19.77 [.51–39.02] | |
| Crude subtotal | 42 | 184.91 [122.57–247.26] | 21 | 89.22 [50.62–127.82] | 21 | 172.78 [88.71–256.85] | 9 | 69.61 [22.47–116.74] | |
| TOTAL | |||||||||
| Crude total | 68 | 229.25 [152.17–306.34] | 54 | 121.80 [79.19–164.51] | 46 | 214.45 [115.14–313.75] | 38 | 118.23 [64.78–171.67] | |
| Adjusted total 4 | 68 | 215.45 [115.69–315.02] | 54 | 90.56 [9.90–171.22] | 46 | 196.32 [161.58–232.74] | 38 | 95.20 [61.48–127.38] |
1
Number of children that required on or more resources per episode of illness.
2
Number of visits to the general practitioner, number of medication prescriptions, the number of laboratory tests, number of days hospitalized, number of transports, number of work days lost.
3
Includes parking fees.
4
Calculated using two-part regression models. Cost estimates are adjusted for the socioeconomic status and urbanization degree of the household neighborhood, the education level and monthly income of parents, the number of children in the household, the nationality, gender and age of the child and the month of survey conduct.
Costs are stratified on households with (DCC+) and without (DCC-) a day-care-attending child.