Burden and Cost of Hospitalization for Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Young Children, Singapore
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Clarence C. Tam; Kee Thai Yeo; Nancy Tee; Raymond Lin; Tze Minn Mak; Koh Cheng Thoon; Mark Jit; Chee Fu Yung
- Source
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 26, Iss 7, Pp 1489-1496 (2020)
- Subject
- respiratory syncytial virus
respiratory infections
lower respiratory tract infection
pneumonia
bronchiolitis
disease burden
Medicine
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1080-6040
1080-6059
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of pediatric acute lower respiratory tract infection worldwide. Detailed data on the health and economic burden of RSV disease are lacking from tropical settings with year-round RSV transmission. We developed a statistical and economic model to estimate the annual incidence and healthcare cost of medically attended RSV disease among young children in Singapore, using Monte Carlo simulation to account for uncertainty in model parameters. RSV accounted for 708 hospitalizations in children