Economically Efficient Hepatitis C Virus Treatment Prioritization Improves Health Outcomes.
Lauren E CiprianoShan LiuKaspar S ShahzadaMark HolodniyJeremy D Goldhaber-FiebertPublished in: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2018)
In the absence of a sufficient budget to treat all patients, explicit prioritization targeting younger people with more severe disease first provides the greatest health benefits. We provide our spreadsheet model so that decision makers can compare health tradeoffs of different budget levels and various prioritization strategies with inputs tailored to their population.
Keyphrases
- hepatitis c virus
- healthcare
- public health
- end stage renal disease
- mental health
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- health information
- human immunodeficiency virus
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- early onset
- health promotion
- risk assessment
- human health
- smoking cessation
- patient reported outcomes
- cancer therapy
- hiv infected
- drug induced