Costs of acute otitis media in children in a city of the Colombian Caribbean coast
Acute otitis media is the main cause of consultation, antibiotic use, and ambulatory surgery in developed countries; besides, it is associated with an important economic burden. However, non-medical indirect costs of acute otitis media, which are relevant in this pathology, have been underestimated
- Autores:
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Coronell-Rodríguez, Wilfrido
Arteta-Acosta, Cindy
Alvis-Zakzuk, Nelson J.
Alvis-Guzmán, Nelson R.
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2018
- Institución:
- Corporación Universidad de la Costa
- Repositorio:
- REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/4184
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/11323/4184
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
- Palabra clave:
- Otitis media
Costs and cost analysis
Health expenditures
Direct medical costs
Health care costs
Cost of illness
Otitis media
Análisis de costes y costes.
El gasto en salud
Gastos médicos directos
Costos de salud
Costo de la enfermedad
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
| Summary: | Acute otitis media is the main cause of consultation, antibiotic use, and ambulatory surgery in developed countries; besides, it is associated with an important economic burden. However, non-medical indirect costs of acute otitis media, which are relevant in this pathology, have been underestimated |
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