Healthcare resource utilization and cost of invasive pneumococcal disease, pneumonia, and acute otitis media in commercially and medicaid-insured children by risk group in the United States, 2018 to 2023
Pneumococcal disease (PD) is a leading cause of morbidity among US children, particularly those with chronic medical conditions (CMC) and immunocompromising conditions (IC), and the decline in PD incidence was less pronounced in the late pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) 13 period. This study quantified healthcare r...