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

• Main Authors: Samuel Shillcutt (Author), Chantal Morel (Author), Catherine Goodman (Author), Paul Coleman (Author), David Bell (Author), Christopher JM Whitty (Author), A Mills (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...