Economic Burden of Respiratory Infections in an Employed Population

Clinical and Economic Burden of Community‐Acquired Pneumonia in the Medicare Fee‐for‐Service Population

“…In both methods, inpatient cost was clearly the main cost driver, accounting for 60% of the burden of CAP. Although previous studies evaluating inpatient and outpatient costs within the same study are limited, the one study in Medicare beneficiaries and three in commercially insured populations confirmed the large cost associated with hospitalization of individuals with pneumonia.…”

EPs 7630 in Acute Respiratory Tract Infections – A systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

“…6 Therefore their economic impact through decreased productivity and time lost from work or school, visits to health-care providers, and the amount of drugs prescribed, is enormous. 2,7,8 The management of trivial RTIs is complicated by the confusing terminology that has arisen to define their anatomic locations, while ignoring their usually diffuse nature. As such, the everyday use of the term 'acute respiratory tract infection' has come to encompass multiple and not necessarily better defined clinical entities including acute rhinopharyngitis (common cold), acute bronchitis (AB), acute rhinosinusitis (ARS), and acute tonsillopharyngitis (ATP).…”

Viability ofPseudomonas aeruginosain cough aerosols generated by persons with cystic fibrosis

“…Communicable respiratory infections are an important cause of mortality and morbidity and result in healthcare costs worth billions of dollars 1 2. The person-to-person transmission of respiratory pathogens may occur by three key routes: contact transmission, where infectious respiratory secretions spread by direct contact or indirectly through a contaminated intermediate object or person; droplet transmission, where large infectious droplets travel directly over short distances from the respiratory tract to deposit onto mucosal surfaces (eg, nasal and conjunctival mucous membranes); and airborne transmission, involving dissemination of small droplet nuclei within the respirable size range that remain infectious over time and distance and are inhaled by susceptible individuals 3.…”