Use of UAT to identify cases of pneumococcal pneumonia among adults in rural Thailand substantially increases estimates of pneumococcal pneumonia burden, thereby informing cost-effectiveness analyses and vaccine policy decisions.
Such data would be valuable for interpreting the likely clinical significance of a positive IGRA result in low risk populations, and further informing cost-benefit analyses of new diagnostics [ 1].
CONCLUSIONS The results show the expected trajectory of medical expenditures after diagnosis of diabetes, highlighting the benefits of prevention and control as well as informing cost-effectiveness models of diabetes interventions.
Nonetheless, they emphasize the potential for substantial adverse health impacts of flooding which is important to understand for developing effective public health responses and for informing cost-benefit aspects of decisions about flood protection measures, including the use of flood-prone land for building and the value of adaptations.
The cost estimates presented in this paper not only inform the magnitude of the resource consequences of breast cancer recurrences, but they are also better suited to informing cost-effectiveness analyses, which have a far greater role in allocating health-care resources.
Project developers can use these models to inform cost projections and design considerations, while regulators can use the models to more quickly identify likely environmental issues and potential solutions, hopefully resulting in more timely and more effective decisions on environmental mitigation.
The event rates reported in our analysis could inform cost effectiveness analyses.
These predicted utility values can be used to inform cost effectiveness models.
This is a well-validated instrument, widely used for constructing the health state utilities which inform cost utility analysis [ 22].
The estimates for the external costs can in this context be useful to inform Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) as well as more comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the waste management practices.
Knowledge of incidence and clearance rates can inform cost effectiveness and decision analysis models for estimating effectiveness of HPV vaccination and screening strategies for cervical cancer prevention for HIV-infected women.
