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. 2019 Sep 16;101(5):1042–1053. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0930

Table 3.

Annual impact of antibiotic resistance on costs of pneumococcal infections in Ethiopia

Outcomes Value* 95% Probabilistic sensitivity analysis CI†
Average costs per successful first-line treatment
  Overall costs, USD 16.69 12.05 25.89
  Direct medical costs, USD 5.78 2.13 13.03
  Direct nonmedical costs, USD 1.54 0.56 3.46
  Productivity losses for caregiver, USD 9.37 9.36 9.40
Average costs per treatment failure due to resistance
  Overall costs, USD 35.39 25.90 52.97
  Direct medical costs, USD 11.39 3.91 25.23
  Direct nonmedical costs, USD 3.03 1.03 6.72
  Short-term productivity losses (caregiver), USD 20.97 20.95 21.02
  Long-term productivity losses (death/disability), USD 45.32 11.94 92.89
Annual costs incurred by first-line treatments due to resistance
  Overall costs, USD 3,267,389 2,149,468 5,658,071
  Direct medical costs, USD 1,131,602 378,609 2,851,699
  Direct nonmedical costs, USD 300,688 99,672 758,165
  Productivity losses for caregiver, USD 1,835,099 1,671,186 2,048,206
Annual costs incurred by second-line treatments due to resistance
  Overall costs, USD 3,661,208 2,547,098 5,741,984
  Direct medical costs, USD 1,098,473 329,218 2,585,820
  Direct nonmedical costs, USD 292,546 87,430 689,212
  Short-term productivity losses (caregiver), USD 2,270,190 2,130,451 2,466,952
  Long-term productivity losses (death/disability), USD 8,872,107 2,158,860 20,017,281

CI = confidence interval; USD = United States dollars.

* Point estimates were derived by taking average values across 10,000 base case simulations.

† The 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles across 10,000 probabilistic sensitivity analyses were used to derive 95% CIs.