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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2020

Methodological Considerations for Cost of Illness Studies of Enteric Fever.

Nelly Mejia, Enusa Ramani, Sarah W Pallas, Dayoung Song, Taiwo Abimbola, Vittal Mogasale

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. A consensus-based checklist for the critical appraisal of cost-of-illness (COI) studies.International journal of technology assessment in health care · 2023
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6 authors.

Nelly MejiaGlobal Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Enusa RamaniPolicy and Economic Research Department, Public Health, Access and Vaccine Epidemiology Unit, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea.
Sarah W PallasGlobal Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Dayoung SongPolicy and Economic Research Department, Public Health, Access and Vaccine Epidemiology Unit, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea.
Taiwo AbimbolaGlobal Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Vittal MogasalePolicy and Economic Research Department, Public Health, Access and Vaccine Epidemiology Unit, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article presents a selection of practical issues, questions, and tradeoffs in methodological choices to consider when conducting a cost of illness (COI) study on enteric fever in low- to lower-middle-income countries. The experiences presented are based on 2 large-scale COI studies embedded within the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project II (SEAP II), in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan; and the Severe Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa (SETA) Program in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Madagascar. Issues presented include study design choices such as controlling for background patient morbidity and healthcare costs, time points for follow-up, data collection methods for sensitive income and spending information, estimating enteric fever-specific health facility cost information, and analytic approaches in combining patient and health facility costs. The article highlights the potential tradeoffs in time, budget, and precision of results to assist those commissioning, conducting, and interpreting enteric fever COI studies.

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Paratyphoid FeverTyphoid FeverBangladeshBurkina FasoCost of IllnessEthiopiaGhanaHumansMadagascarNepalPakistancost of illnesseconomic burdenmethodsparatyphoidtyphoid

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