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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-77745642021-01-01 Economic Burden of Legionnaires’ Disease, United States, 2014 Baker-Goering, Madeleine Roy, Kakoli Edens, Chris Collier, Sarah Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7774564/ /pubmed/33350911 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2701.191198 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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