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ArticlePharmacoEconomics2001

Incremental cost effectiveness of prophylaxis for cytomegalovirus disease in patients with AIDS.

J H Kempen, K D Frick, D A Jabs

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Article in PharmacoEconomics, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Optimal management of cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with AIDS.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2010
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

J H KempenDepartment of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. jkempen@jhmi.edu
K D Frick
D A Jabs

Funding

NEI NIH HHS EY-00386NEI NIH HHS EY-00405
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, an opportunistic complication in patients with AIDS, causes substantial morbidity and has high treatment costs. Although prevention of this disease is highly desirable, incremental cost-effectiveness estimates for proposed prophylactic strategies in the era prior to the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) were unfavourable relative to other specific antimicrobial prophylactic strategies in patients with AIDS. With the availability of HAART, several inputs upon which previous estimates of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for anti-CMV prophylaxis were based probably changed substantially. To assess the incremental cost effectiveness of prophylaxis in the HAART era, data are needed on visual outcomes and utility for patients with CMV retinitis and AIDS, on better strategies for identifying subpopulations at high risk for CMV disease and on the prophylactic efficacy of valganciclovir. Cost-effectiveness analysis could potentially contribute by exploring thresholds of population risk, prophylactic effectiveness, and drug pricing in order to identify conditions under which prophylaxis for CMV disease in patients with AIDS could potentially become cost effective.

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AIDS-Related Opportunistic InfectionsAntiretroviral Therapy, Highly ActiveCost-Benefit AnalysisCytomegalovirus InfectionsAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAntiviral AgentsEconomics, PharmaceuticalHumansQuality-Adjusted Life YearsAntiviral Agents

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