The cost-effectiveness of conducting three versus two reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction tests for diagnosing and discharging people with Covid-19
Evidence from the epidemic in Wuhan, China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21880519 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yawen Jiang (0000-0002-0498-0662, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author), Dan Cai (0000-0002-3005-7724, Sun Yat-sen University), Daqin Chen (0000-0003-0088-2480, Sun Yat-sen University), Shan Jiang (0000-0001-7766-222X, University of British Columbia) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | e002690 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMJ Global Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002690 |
| PMID | 32694221 |
| OpenAlex | W3045286481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
OBJECTIVES: The objectives were to evaluate the effectiveness of conducting three versus two reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) tests for diagnosing and discharging people with COVID-19 with regard to public health and clinical impacts by incorporating asymptomatic and presymptomatic infection and to compare the medical costs associated with the two strategies. METHODS: A model that consisted of six compartments was built. The compartments were the susceptible (S), the asymptomatic infective (A), the presymptomatic infective (L), the symptomatic infective (I), the recovered (R), and the deceased (D). The A, L and I classes were infective states. To construct the model, several parameters were set as fixed using existing evidence and the rest of the parameters were estimated by fitting the model to a smoothed curve of the cumulative confirmed cases in Wuhan from 24 January 2020 to 6 March 2020. Input data about the cost-effectiveness analysis were retrieved from the literature. RESULTS: Conducting RT-PCR tests three times for diagnosing and discharging people with COVID-19 reduced the estimated total number of symptomatic cases to 45 013 from 51 144 in the two-test strategy over 43 days. The former strategy also led to 850.1 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) of health gain and a net healthcare expenditure saving of CN¥49.1 million. About 100.7 QALYs of the health gain were attributable to quality-adjusted life day difference between the strategies during the analytic period and 749.4 QALYs were attributable to years of life saved. CONCLUSIONS: More accurate strategies and methods of testing for the control of COVID-19 may reduce both the number of infections and the total medical costs. Increasing the number of tests should be considered in regions with relatively severe epidemics when existing tests have moderate sensitivity
Asymptomatic · Cost effectiveness · Disease · Pathology · Public health · Quality-adjusted life year · Statistics · COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies · Demography · Mathematics · Medicine · SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research · SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing · Internal Medicine
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
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