The phrase "averted death" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has successfully prevented death or a fatal outcome from occurring.
Example: "The quick actions of the paramedics averted death in the accident victims."
Alternatives: "prevented death" or "avoided death".
The cost per life saved (as estimated by LiST) is in the range of $441 to $3,773, and the cost per DALY averted (again, using LiST and assuming that 30 DALYs were gained for each averted death of an under-5 child) is in the range of $15 to $126 (Table 1).
Additional file 1 Figure S1 presents the age-distribution of the averted death burden projected.
Figure 3 presents the distribution of the averted death burden in the GAVI-eligible countries for each of the two vaccines by region.
The number of life years gained for an averted death was calculated using US life tables and an average population age of 36.5 years.
With a neonatal mortality rate of 30 per 1,000 live births (typical of South Asia) and a number-needed-to-treat of 185 per averted death, this translates to a commodity procurement cost of about US$45 per averted death.
If one assumes that about 16% of the exposed persons would actually become ill with rabies and die (18 ), the cost-effectiveness would be $57,774 per 11 averted deaths ($5,252 per averted death).
This metric accounts for both life years gained due to averted deaths and morbidity averted due to earlier detection.
The costs to the society were included in a secondary analysis, whereby the impact on lifetime economic productivity due to averted deaths was assessed.
Effectiveness is in terms of averted deaths or averted DALYs.
The number of averted deaths is equal to between two and 12 per annum over the study period.
The number of potentially averted deaths was calculated using an estimate of the local ratio of non-fatal to fatal overdoses.
