%0 Journal Article
%T Epidemia de infuenza del a£¿o 2009 en un hospital pedi¨¢trico y costos m¨¦dicos directos en menores de 5 a£¿os comparados con el per¨ªodo 2006-2008
%A Giglio
%A Norberto D
%A Castellano
%A Vanesa E
%A R¨¹ttimann
%A Ricardo W
%A Vidal
%A Gabriela I
%A Gentile
%A ¨¢ngela
%J Archivos argentinos de pediatr£¿-a
%D 2012
%I Sociedad Argentina de Pediatria
%R 10.5546/aap.2012.19
%X introduction. epidemic outbreaks of infuenza occur every year and healthcare systems must amplify their response in accordance with available medical resources. this situation generates cost increases. during the recent infuenza a pandemic, costs were likely to have been greater than in previous years. objective. to estimate direct health costs of infuenza-related illness during 2009 compared to costs expended in the previous 3-year period at ricardo guti¨¦rrez children's hospital, city of buenos aires, argentina. materials and methods. we conducted a cross-sectional epidemiological study with retrospective control group to estimate infuenza-related costs for the years 2006 to 2009 using data from outpatient consultations and hospital admissions for acute respiratory infections attributable to infuenza virus in children under 5 years old. incremental costs were estimated for the year 2009 compared to average costs for the period 2006-2008. results. total incremental cost of hospital admissions and outpatient consultations for infuenza was us$ 91512 for the year 2009 compared to average cost for 2006-2008 period (incremental cost of us$ 147560 for hospital admissions and us$ -56048 for outpatient consultations). conclusions. infuenza-related costs were greater in 2009 than in previous years due to higher number of hospital admissions attributable to infuenza a h1n1.
%K infuenza a virus h1n1 subtype
%K health care costs.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0325-00752012000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en