Costs of Conjunctivitis Outbreak, Réunion Island, France

During January–April 2015, a major outbreak of conjunctivitis on Réunion Island caused a large public health impact. On the basis of general practitioner consultations, emergency department visits, and eye medication sales during the 13-week epidemic, we estimated a total healthcare cost of €3,341,1...

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Autores principales: Filleul, Laurent, Pagès, Frederic, Wan, Guy-Noel Chan, Brottet, Elise, Vilain, Pascal
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29260662
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2401.170916
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Pagès, Frederic
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description During January–April 2015, a major outbreak of conjunctivitis on Réunion Island caused a large public health impact. On the basis of general practitioner consultations, emergency department visits, and eye medication sales during the 13-week epidemic, we estimated a total healthcare cost of €3,341,191 from the outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-57494412018-01-17 Costs of Conjunctivitis Outbreak, Réunion Island, France Filleul, Laurent Pagès, Frederic Wan, Guy-Noel Chan Brottet, Elise Vilain, Pascal Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter During January–April 2015, a major outbreak of conjunctivitis on Réunion Island caused a large public health impact. On the basis of general practitioner consultations, emergency department visits, and eye medication sales during the 13-week epidemic, we estimated a total healthcare cost of €3,341,191 from the outbreak. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5749441/ /pubmed/29260662 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2401.170916 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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