Cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve case finding for tuberculosis: developing consensus to motivate investment

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David W. Dowdy1, Hojoon Sohn2
1Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
2Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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AbstractTo better evaluate the cost-effectiveness of active case finding for tuberculosis, a framework for estimating long-term cost and impact is needed. We outline such a framework and highlight the need for consensus estimates of which costs to measure; averted morbidity, mortality, and transmission; measurable short-term outcomes; and meaningful cost-effectiveness thresholds.

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