Managing Meningococcal Disease in the United States: Hospital Case Characteristics and Costs by Age

Meningococcal disease occurs worldwide. Approximately 1400 to 2800 cases are reported in the United States annually. The goal of this analysis was to examine hospitalized cases of meningitis and meningococcemia to identify case characteristics, resource use, and inpatient care costs. International C...

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Published in:Value in health 2006-07, Vol.9 (4), p.236-243
Main Authors: O'Brien, Judith A., Caro, J. Jaime, Getsios, Denis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Child
Child, Preschool
costs
Databases, Factual
Female
hospital care
Hospital Costs - statistics & numerical data
Hospitals - utilization
Humans
Infant
International Classification of Diseases
Length of Stay - economics
Male
meningitis
Meningitis, Meningococcal - economics
Meningitis, Meningococcal - epidemiology
Meningitis, Meningococcal - prevention & control
Meningitis, Meningococcal - therapy
meningococcal disease
Meningococcal Vaccines
meningococcemia
Middle Aged
Neisseria meningitidis
Patient Discharge - economics
resource use
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Meningococcal disease occurs worldwide. Approximately 1400 to 2800 cases are reported in the United States annually. The goal of this analysis was to examine hospitalized cases of meningitis and meningococcemia to identify case characteristics, resource use, and inpatient care costs. International Classification of Diseases-9th Revision-Clinical Modification diagnosis codes 036.0–036.9 were used to identify cases from roughly 1000 hospitals in four all payer state discharge databases. Multiyear data (1999–2001) were examined to identify demographics, admission month, health service utilization, and hospital costs by age group: infant (
ISSN:1098-3015
1524-4733
DOI:10.1111/j.1524-4733.2006.00113.x