Health economic evaluation of moist wound care in chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis ulcers in Afghanistan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The present health economic evaluation in Afghanistan aims to support public health decision makers and health care managers to allocate resources efficiently to appropriate treatments for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) elicited by Leishmania tropica or Leishmania major.

Methods

A decision tree was used to analyse the cost and the effectiveness of two wound care regimens versus intra-lesional antimony in CL patients in Afghanistan. Costs were collected from a societal perspective. Effectiveness was measured in wound free days. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) and incremental net monetary benefit (NMB) were calculated. The model was parameterized with baseline parameters, sensitivity ranges, and parameter distributions. Finally, the model was simulated

SUBMITTER: Stahl HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5812215 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature