Cost-effectiveness analysis of infant pneumococcal vaccination with PHiD-CV in Korea.

8 Nevertheless, a retrospective study retrieving records from Korean health insurance databases demonstrated a high burden in terms of hospitalizations and deaths due to pneumonia and showed an increasing trend for all age-groups during the study period of 2002–2005. 9 A review of the health insurance database in 2004 revealed that the incidence of outpatient AOM was 60.9 per 1,000 population, with the highest rate reported in children aged 1 y where the reported incidence was 736.9 per 1,000 population. 10 The total cost incurred due to AOM in Korea was estimated to be as high as approximately 559 million United States Dollars (USD) 10 (all currency converted to USD using monthly average from X-Rates 2015, 1 Korean Won (KRW) = 0.00092 USD 11 ).

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