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. 2019 Dec 18;16(4):886–894. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2019.1672491

Table 3.

Health outcome and direct medical costs for 3 vaccination scenarios in year 1A.

  Varicella outcomes and costs
Budget impact
  No vaccination Highly effective Moderately effective Weakly effective Highly effective Moderately effective Weakly effective
Varicella cases 2,010,002 1,592,234 1,627,378 1,677,143 −417,768 −382,624 −332,859
Varicella deaths 283 227 230 235 −56 −53 −48
Total annual costs B 4,977,538,459 4,416,333,877 4,461,552,395 4,550,194,779 −561,204,582 −515,986,064 −427,343,680
 Vaccine acquisition 0 471,721,386 424,450,951 381,553,255 471,721,386 424,450,951 381,553,255
 Vaccine administration 0 27,582,782 27,566,853 27,544,782 27,582,782 27,566,853 27,544,782
 Varicella treatment 4,977,538,459 3,917,029,709 4,009,534,591 4,141,096,742 −1,060,508,749 −968,003,868 −836,441,717
Varicella treatment costs, by visit type B              
 Inpatient costs 4,239,721,087 3,332,168,753 3,411,993,657 3,525,544,845 −907,552,334 −827,727,431 −714,176,243
 Outpatient costs 737,817,372 584,860,956 597,540,934 615,551,897 −152,956,416 −140,276,437 −122,265,474

A For 3 vaccine types (highly, moderately, and weakly effective) at 95% coverage.

B All costs are presented in undiscounted 2015 MXN.