Table 2.
DALY estimates from area above the quality-of-life curves shown in Figure 2 (acute phase only)
| Ambulatory cases | Hospitalized cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First author (last name) | Average duration of illness | Disability worst of day | DALYs | Average duration of illness | Disability of worst day | DALYs |
| Individual studies | ||||||
| Martelli | 10.9 | 0.80 | 0.0161 | 11.2 | 0.90 | 0.0216 |
| Lum | 9.5 | 0.56 | 0.0113 | 12.0 | 0.62 | 0.0148 |
| Armien | 20.0 | 0.67 | 0.0135 | NA | NA | 0.0181 |
| Shepard | 11.5 | 0.85 | 0.0164 | 14.2 | 0.84 | 0.0202 |
| Nguyen | 9.5 | 0.24 | 0.0047 | NA | NA | 0.0088 |
| Whitehorn | NA | NA | 0.0076 | 9.0 | 0.49 | 0.0118 |
| Summary measures | ||||||
| Mean | 13.1 | 0.62 | 0.0116 | 12.3 | 0.71 | 0.0159 |
| Standard error | 2.0 | 0.11 | 0.0021 | 1.1 | 0.10 | 0.0022 |
| Minimum | 9.5 | 0.24 | 0.0047 | 9.0 | 0.49 | 0.0088 |
| Maximum | 20.0 | 0.85 | 0.0164 | 14.2 | 0.90 | 0.0216 |
DALYs = disability-adjusted life years; NA = not available. Average duration of illness is measured in days; the average DALY burden per episode was imputed based on the correlation between DALY burden for ambulatory and that for hospitalized cases.