Cost-effectiveness of malaria diagnostic methods in sub-Saharan Africa in an era of combination therapy

Cost-effectiveness of malaria diagnostic methods in sub-Saharan Africa in an era of combination therapy

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness in different sub-Saharan African settings of presumptive treatment, field-standard microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) to diagnose malaria. METHODS: We used a decision tree model and probabilistic sensitivity analysis applied to outpati...

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Main Authors: Samuel Shillcutt, Chantal Morel, Catherine Goodman, Paul Coleman, David Bell, Christopher JM Whitty, A Mills
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2008-02-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862008000200011&lng=en&tlng=en

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