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Volume 24, Number 1—January 2018
Research Letter

Costs of Conjunctivitis Outbreak, Réunion Island, France

Laurent FilleulComments to Author , Frederic Pagès, Guy-Noel Chan Wan, Elise Brottet, and Pascal Vilain
Author affiliations: Santé Publique France, French National Public Health Agency, Saint-Denis, Réunion, France (L. Filleul, F. Pagès, E. Brottet, P. Vilain); Agence Régionale de Santé Océan Indien, Regional Public Health Authority, Saint-Denis (G.-N.C. Wan)

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Table

Weekly volume and total costs of medicated eye drop sales, consultations with GPs, and ED visits for conjunctivitis outbreak, Réunion Island, France, January–April, 2015*

Epidemiologic week No. eye drop sales No. GP consultations for conjunctivitis No. ED visits for conjunctivitis Total cost of eye drop sales, € Total cost of GP consultations, € Total cost of ED visits, €
5 7,126 2,641 19 21,206 72,887 999
6 6,818 1,937 9 20,198 53,453 473
7 10,379 3,537 17 31,199 97,617 894
8 14,079 7,439 17 42,646 205,326 894
9 25,831 13,845 33 78,083 382,108 1,736
10 27,345 20,895 41 82,198 576,711 2,157
11 31,866 20,648 21 101,453 569,892 1,105
12 15,339 9,141 15 46,990 252,279 789
13 14,726 6,954 17 43,034 191,921 894
14 11,049 4,832 13 32,717 133,371 684
15 8,180 3,369 17 24,166 92,977 894
16 8,109 2,593 9 24,040 71,574 473
17
 6,279
 2,264
 3
 18,514
 62,479
 158
Total by category
 187,126
 100,094
 231
 566,443
 2,762,597
 12,151
Total costs 3,341,191

*ED, emergency department; GP, general practitioners.

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