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/ week of work loss determines the average costs of one week of
work loss. Please note that only
severely sick
working adults contribute to the total amount of work loss during their
duration of disease and
convalescence. Individuals with
asymptomatic infection and moderately sick working adults
continue to go to work as usual.
Work loss which is caused indirectly because people take care of their sick
or of their children during
closing of day care centers and schools are not considered in the current
version of the program. Nor are other reasons which may equally contribute to
work loss (i.e. because of disturbancies in transportation and social
structure or closing of factories etc).
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/ outpatient determines the average costs of a medical
consultation of a severely sick case. This value must be considered as an
average over all ages and risk groups
of patients. It does not distinquish between patients who can be taken care
of at home and patients who need to be hospitalized; it does not include the
costs of antiviral treatment nor the hospitalization costs.
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/ hospitalization determines the average costs of the
hospitalization of an extremely severe case. It has to be understood as an
average value over all
ages and risk groups of patients for the whole period of their
hospitalization which includes all possible complications. It is not
distinquished in the program whether the patient survives or
dies of the disease.
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/ antiviral treatment determines the average costs of an
antiviral treatment.
As antiviral treatment is given in the model only after
seeking medical help, only the
additional costs of antiviral treatment are to be given here.
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