Title
A user-friendly, open-source tool to project impact and cost of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis
Date Issued
04 June 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Escuela de Salud Pública Bloomberg de Johns Hopkins
Publisher(s)
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Abstract
Most models of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), do not provide results customized to local conditions. We created a dynamic transmission model to project TB incidence, TB mortality, multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB prevalence, and incremental costs over 5 years after scale-up of nine alternative diagnostic strategies. A corresponding web-based interface allows users to specify local costs and epidemiology. In settings with little capacity for up-front investment, same-day microscopy had the greatest impact on TB incidence and became cost-saving within 5 years if delivered at $10/test. With greater initial investment, population-level scale-up of Xpert MTB/RIF or microcolony-based culture often averted 10 times more TB cases than narrowly-targeted strategies, at minimal incremental long-term cost. Xpert for smear-positive TB had reasonable impact on MDR-TB incidence, but at substantial price and little impact on overall TB incidence and mortality. This user-friendly modeling framework improves decision-makers' ability to evaluate the local impact of TB diagnostic strategies. © Dowdy et al.
Volume
2014
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Medicina clínica
Ciencias de la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84904154258
PubMed ID
Source
eLife
ISSN of the container
2050-084X
Sponsor(s)
National Institutes of Health NIH
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R21AI101152 NIAID
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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