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Table 5 Studies that represented inpatient care cost as the largest proportion of total direct cost or total asthma related cost

From: Economic burden of asthma: a systematic review

References No.

Country

Study duration

Sample size

Cost of inpatient care/person

Total direct cost

Total asthma related cost/person

Total asthma related cost

    

Mean

SD

95%CI

%

   

Institutional studies

15

Canada

1 yr

940

614Â¥

-

-

-

1,421

-

-

28

Australia

1 yr

245

397

-

-

-

-

779

-

30

France

1 yr

17 **

229

282.4

-

52

-

-

6,856

38

UK

1 yr

29*

439

816

0–2,895

57

-

-

773

42

Canada

1 yr

339

591

-

-

77ψ

-

766

-

48

Switzerland

1 yr

589

928

-

-

47ξ

1,779

-

-

52

Spain

3 mo

126

1,932

-

1,529–2,353

83

2,338

-

-

53

France

1 yr

94**

64,675Ï•

-

-

86

-

-

745,847

Regional studies

54

US

1 yr

530,000

7.8 m

-

-

-

-

-

20 m

National studies

14

US

1 yr

4.7 m

4 b

-

2 – 6 b

54

7 b

-

-

20

Singapore

1 yr

27,164**

12 m

-

-

-

25 m

346

49 m

49

US

5 yrs

463,500**

1.6 b

-

-

67

4 b

-

7.2 b

  1. All costs are converted and adjusted into 2008 US dollars
  2. ¥ from the societal perspective; * Number of the trial families admitted to hospital, out of 94 trials; **average number of hospitalization for asthma in one year; ξ: Hospital care found to be a major cost factor only in the adult group of the study;
  3. ψ: From ministry of health (MOH) perspective. It accounted 43% of total cost from a societal perspective;
  4. Ï•:of total study sample size; m: million; b: billion; mo: month; yr: year
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