Cost of illness for childhood diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of evidence and modelled estimates

Table 2 Summary of diarrhea cost of illness estimates from literature review (in 2015 USD)

	Direct medical cost	Direct non-medical cost	Total direct cost	Indirect cost	Total cost per episode
Outpatient
N	9	8	10	7	6
Mean	12.54	4.77	15.52	14.02	36.56
Median	6.64	2.98	7.23	3.48	15.73
Min	0.92	0.47	1.42	1.66	4.30
Max	58.23	18.87	77.10	68.37	145.47
Inpatient
N	15	13	16	12	11
Mean	117.58	16.99	116.79	39.19	159.90
Median	64.27	14.21	73.66	19.23	85.85
Min	24.24	1.18	29.99	2.47	41.01
Max	341.27	39.75	359.34	178.99	538.33
Unspecified In/out-patient
N	10	9	10	9	9
Mean	39.55	11.33	56.97	17.14	80.05
Median	2.84	0.72	3.37	3.58	7.28
Min	1.22	0.24	1.70	0.91	2.62
Max	299.58	91.13	390.72	74.94	416.72

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