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Table 8 Costs and impacts of vaccination1

From: Reactive strategies for containing developing outbreaks of pandemic influenza

Cost or Side Effect Item

Probability of Side Effect

Per-case Cost of Side Effect

Cost Scenario (per patient)

Assumed cost of vaccination

  

25.00

Patient time

  

5.65

Patient travel costs

  

5.65

Side effects

   

Mild

0.0325

94

5.04

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)

0.000002

100,800

0.33

Anaphylaxis

0.000000157

2,490

0.0006

  1. 1. Estimates based on figures from Meltzer et al. [29]. Travel and side effect cost estimates inflated by 2008 consumer and medical price indices [30–32] as appropriate.