AUTHOR=Calderón-Moreno Jesús , Juárez-Vela Raúl , Delgado-Rodríguez María Jesús , Quintana-Díaz Manuel , Magallón-Botaya Rosa , Olivan-Blázquez Bárbara , Cobos-Rincón Ana , Santolalla-Arnedo Iván , Ramírez-Torres Carmen Amaia , Gea-Caballero Vicente , Andrés-Esteban Eva María 

TITLE=Approximation to the Consumption of Healthcare Resources and the Economic Cost of SARS-CoV-2 Patient Management: A Retrospective Study

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.843751

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.843751

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Spain has become one of the countries most affected by the disease, one of the countries with the highest COVID-19 testing rates, and one of the worst-performing countries in the fight against the 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 presented a retrospective analysis of 9811      (Primary Care and Hospital) patients which aimed to estimate approximate public health expenditure and the consumption of health resources by COVID-19. Attending 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 their course, was 2373.24€ per person. We conclude that a  patient with COVID-19 without hospitalization is € 729.79, the costs of a hospitalized patient are € 4,294.36, and € 14,440.68 if there is ICU admission