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Costing of a hospital-based outbreak of poultry-borne salmonellosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

B. F. Yule ,
A. F. Macleod ,
J. C. M. Sharp  and
G. I. Forbes
B. F. Yule
Affiliation:
Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD
A. F. Macleod
Affiliation:
Lothian Health Board, 15–17 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5DG
J. C. M. Sharp
Affiliation:
Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow G20 9NB
G. I. Forbes
Affiliation:
Scottish Home and Health Department, St Andrews House, Edinburgh EH1 3DE
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Poultry-borne salmonellosis is the most common form of foodborne infection in Scotland for which the vehicle can be identified, yet little is known about the costs imposed on society by this disease, or the costs of preventing it. The present study identifies and values the costs of a hospital based outbreak of poultry-borne salmonellosis. Account is taken of costs falling on individuals, the health services and society as a whole. Depending on assumptions made about the value of ‘intangibles’, the cost of the outbreak is estimated to be between £200000 and £900000.

Type
Research Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 100 , Issue 1 , February 1988 , pp. 35 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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