tailieunhanh - Bóa cáo y học: "Estimating the cost of cervical cancer screening in five developing countries"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Estimating the cost of cervical cancer screening in five developing countries. | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Open Access Estimating the cost of cervical cancer screening in five developing countries Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert and Sue J Goldie Address Program in Health Decision Science Harvard School of Public Health Harvard University 718 Huntington Avenue Boston MA 02115 USA Email Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert - jgoldhab@ Sue J Goldie - sue_goldie@ Corresponding author Published 03 August 2006 Received 24 April 2006 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2006 4 13 doi 1478-7547-4-1 3 Accepted 03 August 2006 This article is available from http content 4 1 13 2006 Goldhaber-Fiebert and Goldie licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Cost-effectiveness analyses CEAs can provide useful information to policymakers concerned with the broad allocation of resources as well as to local decision makers choosing between different options for reducing the burden from a single disease. For the latter it is important to use country-specific data when possible and to represent cost differences between countries that might make one strategy more or less attractive than another strategy locally. As part of a CEA of cervical cancer screening in five developing countries we supplemented limited primary cost data by developing other estimation techniques for direct medical and non-medical costs associated with alternative screening approaches using one of three initial screening tests simple visual screening HPV DNA testing and cervical cytology. Here we report estimation methods and results for three cost areas in .