Economic Burden of Legionnaires’ Disease, United States, 2014

Through the use of published estimates of medical costs and new calculations of productivity losses, we estimate the lifetime economic burden of 2014 Legionnaires’ disease cases in the United States at ≈$835 million. This total includes $21 million in productivity losses caused by absenteeism and $4...

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Autores principales: Baker-Goering, Madeleine, Roy, Kakoli, Edens, Chris, Collier, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33350911
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2701.191198
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Sumario:Through the use of published estimates of medical costs and new calculations of productivity losses, we estimate the lifetime economic burden of 2014 Legionnaires’ disease cases in the United States at ≈$835 million. This total includes $21 million in productivity losses caused by absenteeism and $412 million in productivity losses caused by premature deaths.

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