%0 Journal Article
%T Costs analysis of the treatment of imported malaria
%A Viera Svihrova
%A Maria Szilagyiova
%A Elena Novakova
%A Jan Svihra
%A Henrieta Hudeckova
%J Malaria Journal
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1475-2875-11-1
%X Calculating and comparing the direct and indirect costs of treatment of patients diagnosed with imported malaria (ICD-10: B50 - B54) who used and not used chemoprophylaxis. The target sample included 19 patients diagnosed with imported malaria from 2003 to 2008, with 11 whose treatment did not include chemoprophylaxis and eight whose treatment did.The mean direct cost of malaria treatment for patients without chemoprophylaxis was 1,776.0 EUR, and the mean indirect cost 524.2 EUR. In patients with chemoprophylaxis the mean direct cost was 405.6 EUR, and the mean indirect cost 257.4 EUR.The analysis confirmed statistically-significant differences between the direct and indirect costs of treatment with and without chemoprophylaxis for patients with imported malaria.Malaria is a common and life-threatening disease in areas where it is endemic. In the Slovak Republic, malaria is currently categorized as an imported infectious disease. In the past years, there was a balanced trend in the Slovak Republic in the numbers of reported cases of imported malaria, no deaths have been confirmed. The disease has traditionally been expensive to treat. Malaria chemoprophylaxis, a very effective protection against the infection, is important not only for health reasons but also because it reduces the costs of treating the disease and, in the case of working persons, it minimizes possible social-economic impacts on the patient and his/her family and society.The goal of this paper was to calculate and compare the direct and indirect costs of treatment with and without chemoprophylaxis in patients diagnosed with imported malaria (ICD-10: B50 - B54). This is the first study in Slovakia about hospitalization costs of imported malaria.Data on imported malaria patients in the Slovak Republic from 2003 to 2008 were obtained from the Epidemiological Information System of the Office of the Public Health of the Slovak Republic (EPIS). Analysis has evaluated costs during hospitalization. Patients
%K Imported malaria
%K Costs
%K Prevention
%U http://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/1