Economic Burden of the 2020 COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Spain

Blanca Álvarez-Del Río; Laura Sánchez-de Prada; Alejandro Álvaro-Meca; Marta Martín-Fernández; F Javier Álvarez; Eduardo Tamayo; Eduardo Gutiérrez-Abejón

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50960

Economic Burden of the 2020 COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Spain

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2250960. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50960.

Authors

Blanca Álvarez-Del Río¹, Laura Sánchez-de Prada^{2

3

4}, Alejandro Álvaro-Meca^{5

6}, Marta Martín-Fernández^{1

2

5}, F Javier Álvarez^{1

2

3

5}, Eduardo Tamayo^{1

2

3

5}, Eduardo Gutiérrez-Abejón^{1

2

5

7}

Affiliations

¹ Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
² BioCritic, Group for Biomedical Research in Critical Care Medicine, Valladolid, Spain.
³ Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
⁴ National Influenza Centre, Valladolid, Spain.
⁵ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Preventive Medicine and Public Health Department, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Pharmacy Directorate, Castilla y León Health Council, Valladolid, Spain.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This economic evaluation reports the total and per patient costs of inpatient care for COVID-19 in Spain in 2020.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Financial Stress*
Health Care Costs
Hospitalization
Humans
Spain / epidemiology