Modeling the cost of influenza: the impact of missing costs of unreported complications and sick leave

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Table 2 Average costs of seasonal influenza (2005US$)

		Mean	Lower bound	Upper bound
			(95% CI)	(95% CI)
Pharmaceutical cost	Tamiflu	285 665
	Other	2 575 322	691 010	6 401 872
	Sub-total	2 860 986	976 675	6 687 536
Outpatient cost	Public	3 415 900	2 215 418	4 758 469
	Private	683 180	243 696	1 475 125
	Sub-total	4 099 080	2 459 114	6 233 594
Inpatient cost	Influenza	1 213 563	584 232	2 295 357
	Pneumonia	9 369 162	4 126 879	17 933 785
	Other	4 104 548	2 248 653	6 932 703
	Sub-total	14 687 272	6 959 764	27 161 845
Direct cost		21 647 339	10 982 153	32 312 524
Indirect cost	Employees' own sickness	202 247 136	180 927 219	229 780 678
	Employees' children's sickness	28 763 862	28 763 862	28 763 862
	Sub-total	231 010 998	200 103 205	268 132 650
Total		252 658 337	220 086 635	298 627 517

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