Cost of illness of community-acquired pneumonia. Review of the literature and possible strategies in the Serbian health care setting
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents a potentially severe illness with high incidence and significant economic impact.The estimated incidence varies from 1.6 to 13.4 cases/1000 inhabitants per year.Its burden of disease is attributed to high morbidity, mortality and serious health care utilization and expenditure throughout the world.The i