doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.843751engCalderón-Moreno, JesúsJuárez-Vela, RaúlDelgado-Rodríguez, María JesúsQuintana-Díaz, ManuelMagallón-Botaya, RosaOlivan-Blázquez, BárbaraCobos-Rincón, AnaSantolalla-Arnedo, IvánRamírez-Torres, Carmen AmaiaGea-Caballero, VicenteAndrés-Esteban, Eva MaríaApproximation to the Consumption of Healthcare Resources and the Economic Cost of SARS-CoV-2 Patient Management: A Retrospective StudyART-2022-127957Spain has become one of the countries most affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with the highest testing rates, and one of the worst-performing countries in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. There are no studies related to the consumption of health resources and the economic cost of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We present a retrospective analysis of 9,811 (Primary Care and Hospital) patients which aimed to estimate public health expenditure by the consumption of health resources due to COVID-19. According to the results, the gender distribution of patients has a similar rate in both groups, with slightly higher rates in women. Similarly, age is the same in both groups, with a median of 62 years in the case of hospitalizations and 61 years in the case of primary care; using a weighted average of these rates and costs, we can estimate that the average cost of care per patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, regardless of the course is €2373.24. We conclude that a patient with COVID-19 without hospitalization costs €729.79, while the expenses of a hospitalized patient are between €4294.36 and €14440.68, if there is ICU admission.2022http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/11201710.3389/fpubh.2022.843751http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112017oai:zaguan.unizar.es:112017Frontiers in public health 10 (2022), 843751 [6 pp.]byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess