Cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve case finding for tuberculosis: developing consensus to motivate investment
David W. Dowdy, Hojoon Sohn
BMC Global and Public Health · 2023-10
Abstract
To 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.
MeSH terms
- Tuberculosis
- Psychological intervention
- Investment (military)
- Case finding
- Developing country
- Cost effectiveness
- Business
- Medicine
- Intensive care medicine
- Risk analysis (engineering)