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Cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer screening and preventative cryotherapy at an HIV treatment clinic in Kenya

Overview of attention for article published in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, July 2017
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Title
Cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer screening and preventative cryotherapy at an HIV treatment clinic in Kenya
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, July 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12962-017-0075-6
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Marita R. Zimmermann, Elisabeth Vodicka, Joseph B. Babigumira, Timothy Okech, Nelly Mugo, Samah Sakr, Louis P. Garrison, Michael H. Chung

Abstract

This study evaluated the potential cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer screening in HIV treatment clinics in Nairobi, Kenya. A Markov model was used to project health outcomes and costs of cervical cancer screening and cryotherapy at an HIV clinic in Kenya using cryotherapy without screening, visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), Papanicolaou smear (Pap), and testing for human papillomavirus (HPV). Direct and indirect medical and non-medical costs were examined from societal and clinic perspectives. Costs of cryotherapy, VIA, Pap, and HPV for women with CD4 200-500 cells/mL were $99, $196, $219, and $223 from a societal perspective and $19, $94, $124, and $113 from a clinic perspective, with 17.3, 17.1, 17.1, and 17.1 years of life expectancy, respectively. Women at higher CD4 counts (>500 cells/mL) given cryotherapy VIA, Pap, and HPV resulted in better life expectancies (19.9+ years) and lower cost (societal: $49, $99, $115, and $102; clinic: $13, $51, $71, and $56). VIA was less expensive than HPV unless HPV screening could be reduced to a single visit. Preventative cryotherapy was the least expensive strategy and resulted in highest projected life expectancy, while VIA was most cost-effective unless HPV could be reduced to a single visit.

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Unknown 93 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 20%
Researcher 11 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 5%
Other 5 5%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 36 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 10%
Social Sciences 5 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 40 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 August 2017.
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#17,905,157
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#341
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#224,293
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#4
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