Cost Effectiveness of Strategies for Caring for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The resources for critical care are limited in many settings, exacerbating the significant morbidity and mortality associated with critical illness. Budget constraints can lead to choices between investing in advanced critical care (e.g. mechanical ventilators in intensive care units) or more basic critical care such as Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC; e.g. vital signs monitoring, oxygen therapy, and intravenous fluids).

Methods

We investigated the cost effectiveness of providing EECC and advanced critical care in Tanzania in comparison with providing 'no critical care' or 'district hospital-level critical care' using coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a tracer condition. We developed an open-source Markov model ( https://github.com/EECCnetwork/POE

SUBMITTER: Shah HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10181924 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature