Table 4.

Sensitivity Analysis of Patient and Caregiver Cost of Illness Due to Enteric Fever: Indirect and Total Costs When Using Alternative Wage Rates and Including Unpaid Labor, Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 2016—December 2018 (N = 1772, 2018 US $)

	Patients who did not report any inpatient care expensesa				Patients who reported inpatient care expensesa				All patients
Cost type	n	Median	25th Pctl	75th Pctl	n	Median	25th Pctl	75th Pctl	n	Median	25th Pctl	75th Pctl
Indirect costs—Caregiver—using median wage in the sample for unpaid caregivers’ time
Total productivity loss	1237	2.18	1.31	7.86	462	63.75	44.16	94.35	1699	6.29	1.57	44.56
Cost of illness - using median wage in the sample for unpaid caregivers’ time
Total cost of illness per case	1269	49.63	31.67	85.61	470	357.55	268.27	475.92	1739	74.16	37.14	251.72
Indirect costs—Caregiver—using country minimum wage for unpaid caregivers’ time
Total productivity loss	1237	0.92	0.55	3.30	462	29.05	18.71	43.39	1699	2.64	0.66	21.16
Cost of illness—using country minimum wage for unpaid caregivers’ time
Total cost of illness per case	1269	45.31	30.54	81.83	470	321.96	234.49	426.84	1739	70.22	35.80	221.45

Abbreviations: 25th Pctl, 25^th percentile; 75th Pctl, 75^th percentile.

^aInpatient care expenses: expenses on inpatient care regardless of patient recruitment location (outpatient care, inpatient care, hospital laboratory, surgery, laboratory network).