Cost-effectiveness of bedaquiline in MDR and XDR tuberculosis in Italy

• Main Authors: Luigi R. Codecasa (Author), Mondher Toumi (Author), Anna D'Ausilio (Author), Andrea Aiello (Author), Francesco Damele (Author), Roberta Termini (Author), Alessia Uglietti (Author), Robert Hettle (Author), Giorgio Graziano (Author), Saverio De Lorenzo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of bedaquiline plus background drug regimens (BR) for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in Italy. Methods: A Markov model was adapted to the Italian setting to estimate the incremental cost-eff...