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Estimation of the incidence of genital warts and the cost of illness in Germany: A cross-sectional study by Peter Hillemanns; J Gabrielle Breugelmans; Friederike Gieseking; Stève Bénard; Emilie Lamure; Kavi J Littlewood; Karl U Petry is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a necessary cause of cervical cancer. HPV is also responsible for benign __condylomata acuminata__, also known as genital warts. We assessed the incidence of genital warts in Germany and collected information on their management to estimate the annual cost of disease. ## Methods This was a multi-centre observational (cross-sectional) study of genital warts in Germany. Data were collected from gynecologists, dermatologists, and urologists seeing patients with genital warts between February and April 2005. The number of patients with new and recurrent genital warts was used to estimate the incidence in Germany. We assessed resource use for patients with genital warts seen during a two-month period as well as retrospective resource use twelve months prior to the inclusion visit through a chart review. The mean costs of treatment of patients with genital warts from third-party payer and societal perspectives were estimated, and the total annual cost of genital warts was then calculated. ## Results For the incidence calculation 217 specialists provided information on 848 patients and 214 specialists provided resource use data for 617 patients
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- Author
- Peter Hillemanns; J Gabrielle Breugelmans; Friederike Gieseking; Stève Bénard; Emilie Lamure; Kavi J Littlewood; Karl U Petry
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2334)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)