Cost-utility Analysis of Opportunistic and Systematic Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Strategies from the Perspective of the Brazilian Public Healthcare System.

Ângela Jornada BenJeruza L NeyeloffCamila F de SouzaAna Paula O RossesAline L de AraujoAdriana SzortikaFranciele LocatelliGabriela de CarvalhoCristina R Neumann

Published in: Applied health economics and health policy (2020)

Systematic teleophthalmology-based DR screening for the Brazilian population with T2D would be considered very cost effective compared to the opportunistic ophthalmology referral-based screening according to the WHO-WTP threshold. However, there is still a considerable amount of uncertainty around the results.

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