Economic evaluation of laboratory diagnostic test types in Covid-19 epidemic: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Corona 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) is known as the causative agent of COVID-19 disease; the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it an epidemic on March 11, 2020. The Joint Guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the WHO including social distancing, the use of face masks, emphasis on hand washing, quarantine, and using diagnosis tests have been used widely, but the value of diagnostic interventions to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is unclear. We compared the economic evaluation of different laboratory diagnostic interventions with each other and also with implementing the conservative CDC & WHO guidelines.

Material and methods

Electronic searches were conducted on PubMed, Embase, Science Direct, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Web of

SUBMITTER: Dolatshahi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9384461 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature