Table 7.
Healthcare Provider Cost of Illness Due to Enteric Fever: Procedure Unit Costs and Frequencies and Average Cost per Case of Enteric Fever—Nepal, July 2015–June 2016
| Unit Cost in 2018 US $ | Frequency | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Procedure | Hospital A | Hospital B | Hospital A | Hospital B | |
| General services not specific to enteric fever | |||||
| Outpatient routine service cost (per patient, per visit) | 11.40 | 7.72 | 51 | 101 | |
| Inpatient hospital cost (per patient, per day) | 16.01 | 15.27 | 345 | 364 | |
| Surgical outpatient visit (per patient, per visit) | 12.54 | 8.51 | 1 | 0 | |
| Surgical inpatient (per patient, per day) | 19.56 | 9.76 | 0 | 0 | |
| ICU (per patient, per day) | … a | 14.45 | … a | … a | |
| Services specific to enteric fever | |||||
| Gallbladder surgery | 193.49 | 189.57 | … a | … a | |
| Surgery for intestinal perforation | 280.08 | 279.61 | 1 | 1 | |
| Blood culture | 19.93 | 21.13 | 100 | 165 | |
| Abdominal ultrasound | 5.59 | 6.80 | 14 | 47 | |
| Complete blood count | 7.36 | 5.20 | 91 | 145 | |
| Abdominal X-rayb | 4.65 | 8.83 | 44 | 71 | |
| Blood draw | … a | 2.02 | 81 | 146 | |
| Total blood culture–confirmed enteric fever or nontraumatic ileal perforation cases | 100 | 165 | |||
| Weighted average cost per case by enrollment site | 93.43 | $71.54 | … | … | |
| Weighted average cost per case (both sites) | 79.80 | … | |||
N = 265.
Abbreviation: ICU, intensive care unit.
aMissing information.
bBased on number of chest X-rays as a proxy, as number of abdominal X-rays was not collected in the clinical surveillance component.