Costs of surviving meningococcal disease in Spain: Evaluation for two cases of severe meningitis and septicaemia

• Published in: Vaccine Vol. 32; no. 39; pp. 5006 - 5012
• Main Authors: Darbà, Josep, Kaskens, Lisette, Hark, Mareile, Wright, Claire
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 03.09.2014; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Allergy and Immunology; Applied microbiology; Bacterial diseases; Bacterial sepsis; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Health care; Health Care Costs; Hospitalization - economics; Hospitals; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infant; Infectious diseases; Life expectancy; Lifelong rehabilitation costs; Literature reviews; Major sequelae; Male; Medical sciences; Meningitis; Meningitis, Meningococcal - economics; Meningitis, Meningococcal - etiology; Meningococcal disease; Meningococcal Infections - complications; Meningococcal Infections - economics; Meningococcal Infections - rehabilitation; Microbiology; Middle Aged; Neisseria meningitidis; Older people; Rehabilitation - economics; Resources; Sepsis; Sepsis - economics; Sepsis - etiology; Spain; State Medicine; Teenagers; Vaccines; Vaccines, antisera, therapeutical immunoglobulins and monoclonal antibodies (general aspects); Young Adult; Southern Europe; Europe; Spain; United Kingdom > UK; INE; Spanish National Healthcare System; Paediatric Intensive Care Unit; Lifelong rehabilitation costs; NHS; Sepsis; Meningitis; Spanish National Statistics Institute; Resources; Major sequelae; PICU; Meningococcal disease; Infection; Sepsis syndrome; Nervous system diseases; Septicemia; Central nervous system disease; Bacteriosis
• ISSN: 0264-410X; 1873-2518
• DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.07.019

Highlights • Count the lifelong rehabilitation costs associated with surviving meningococcal disease. • Scenario representing meningococcal septicaemia. • Scenario representing meningococcal meningitis. • Performance of a sensitivity analysis on medical care costs.