Study of implementation and direct cost estimates for diagnostic tests for human visceral leishmaniasis in an urban area in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5168424 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tália Santana Machado De Assis (0000-0002-5682-2981, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brasil; Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brasil), Paloma Nogueira Guimarães (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Edward Oliveira (0000-0002-0042-5178, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães (0000-0002-2907-2724, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Luciana Inácia Gomes (0000-0003-2321-4100, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Ana Rabello (0000-0001-5821-4069, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 2127-2136 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/0102-311x00158614 |
| PMID | 26735380 |
| OpenAlex | W2252657568 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0102-311X2015001002127 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This work reports the process and costs of comprehensively implementing two tests to decentralize the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in an endemic city in Brazil: a rapid test (IT LEISH) and a direct agglutination test (DAT-LPC). The implementation began by training health professionals to perform the tests. Estimation of the training costs considered the proportional remuneration of all professionals involved and the direct costs of the tests used for training. The study was conducted between November 2011 and November 2013. During that time, 17 training sessions were held, and 175 professionals were trained. The training cost for each professional was US$ 7.13 for the IT LEISH and US$ 9.93 for the DAT-LPC. The direct costs of the IT LEISH and DAT-LPC were estimated to be US$ 6.62 and US$ 5.44, respectively. This first evaluation of the implementation of these diagnostic tests indicates the feasibility of decentralizing both methods to extend access to VL diagnosis in Brazil
Biology · Business · Cost estimate · Diagnostic test · Direct agglutination test · Direct cost · Economics · Estimation · Family medicine · Indirect costs · Leishmaniasis · Management · Pathology · Remuneration · Test (biology) · Veterinary medicine · Visceral leishmaniasis · Medicine · Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |