112017 20240319080949.0 doi 10.3389/fpubh.2022.843751 sideral 127957 ART-2022-127957 eng Calderón-Moreno, Jesús Approximation to the Consumption of Healthcare Resources and the Economic Cost of SARS-CoV-2 Patient Management: A Retrospective Study 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Spain 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 5.2 2022 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 25 / 180 = 0.139 2022 Q1 T1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 43 / 207 = 0.208 2022 Q1 T1 1.125 2022 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2022 Q1 3.8 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Juárez-Vela, Raúl Delgado-Rodríguez, María Jesús Quintana-Díaz, Manuel Magallón-Botaya, Rosa Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5494-6550 Olivan-Blázquez, Bárbara Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6565-9699 Cobos-Rincón, Ana Santolalla-Arnedo, Iván Ramírez-Torres, Carmen Amaia Gea-Caballero, Vicente Andrés-Esteban, Eva María 4009 740 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Psicología Social 1007 610 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Medicina, Psiqu. y Derm. Area Medicina 10 (2022), 843751 [6 pp.] Front. public health. Frontiers in public health 2296-2565 272828 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112017/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2453134 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112017/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:112017 articulos driver 2024-03-18-12:54:08 ARTICLE