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The Annual costs of treating genital warts in the Public Healthcare Sector in Peru

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dc.contributor.author Saldarriaga, E.M.
dc.contributor.author Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio
dc.contributor.author Babigumira, J.B.
dc.contributor.author Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-12T20:24:54Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-12T20:24:54Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/10199
dc.description.abstract Objectives: To estimate the cost of six different techniques used to treat Genital Warts and the annual average cost of treating a typical GW patient in Peru. To estimate the annual economic burden diagnosing and treating GW in the Peruvian public healthcare system. Methods: We developed a prevalence-based, cost-of-illness study from the provider’s perspective, the healthcare facilities under the purview of Peruvian Ministry of Health. We used an activity-based costing approach. We conducted primary data collection in three regions in Peru and supplemented it with governmental data. Uncertainty of the costing estimates was assessed via Monte Carlo simulations. We estimated the average cost and associated confidence intervals for six treatment options – three topical and three surgical – and the overall cost per patient. Results: The average treatment cost per patient was 59.9USD (95 %CI 45.5, 77.6). Given a population of 18.4 million adults between 18 and 60 years of age and a GW prevalence of 2.28 %, the annual cost of treating GW was 25.1 million USD (uncertainty interval 16.9, 36.6). Conclusions: This study provides the first quantification of the economic burden of treating genital warts in Peru and one of the few in Latin America. The costing data did not include other healthcare providers or out-of-pocket expenditures, and hence we present a conservative estimate of the COI of GW in Peru. Our findings bring attention to the financial burden of treating GW, a vaccine-preventable disease en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation.ispartofseries BMC Health Services Research
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject adult en_US
dc.subject Adult en_US
dc.subject condyloma acuminatum en_US
dc.subject Condylomata Acuminata en_US
dc.subject cost of illness en_US
dc.subject Cost of Illness en_US
dc.subject Cost-of-illness en_US
dc.subject Genital warts en_US
dc.subject health care cost en_US
dc.subject Health Care Costs en_US
dc.subject Health Care Sector en_US
dc.subject Health Expenditures en_US
dc.subject human en_US
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject Micro-costing en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.title The Annual costs of treating genital warts in the Public Healthcare Sector in Peru en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-07120-w
dc.relation.issn 1472-6963


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