Table 5 |
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Results in terms of health and costs, with and without the rotavirus vaccine program |
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Variable |
Without the program |
With the program |
Preventable by the vaccine (5th–95th percentile)* |
% reduction |
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Medical visits |
122,134 |
50,670 |
71,464 (68,135 – 74,432) |
59% |
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Hospital admissions |
7,585 |
2,545 |
5,040 (4,851 – 5,186) |
66% |
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Deaths |
871 |
259 |
612 (593 – 628) |
70% |
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Life-years saved |
43,411 (42,092 – 44,570) |
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Discounted Life-years saved |
17,430 (16,888 – 19,908) |
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Medical costs (thousands of dollars) |
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For medical visits |
$ 4,046.74 |
$ 1,671.90 |
$ 2,374.84 (2,134 – 2,638) |
59% |
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For hospital admissions |
$ 7,905.79 |
$ 2,649.22 |
$ 5,256.57 (293 – 17,825) |
66% |
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Cost of the vaccine |
$ 56,400.00 |
-$56,400.00 (NA) |
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Cost of administration of the vaccine |
$ 25,895.32 |
-$25,895.32 (NA) |
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Total medical costs |
$11,952.53 |
$ 86,616.44 |
-$74,663.91 (-79,624 – -62,049) |
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Cost per case prevented (dollars) |
$ 968.23 (796 – 1,054) |
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Cost per hospitalization prevented (dollars) |
$ 14,814.88 (12,277 – 16,045) |
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Cost per death prevented (dollars) |
$122,058.40 (101,113 – 131,226) |
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Cost per life-year saved (dollars) |
$ 1,719.93 (1,424 – 1,848) |
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Cost per life-year saved (dollars, Discounted life-years) |
$ 4,283.75 (3,548 – 4,606) |
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* 5th to 95th percentile of the probabilistic estimates |
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Valencia-Mendoza et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008 8:103 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-103 |
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