Open AccessEstimating the Direct Outpatient Medical Cost per Episode of Primary and Secondary Syphilis in the United States: Insured Population Perspective, 2003–2007
Author(s) -
Kwame Owusu-Edusei,
Karen W. Hoover,
Guoyu Tao
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0b013e3181f4207f
Subject(s) - medicine , syphilis , current procedural terminology , population , diagnosis code , indirect costs , ambulatory care , pediatrics , family medicine , health care , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , surgery , environmental health , accounting , economics , business , economic growth
No study has directly estimated the direct outpatient medical cost of care for primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis among the employer-sponsored commercially insured population in the United States.