Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness for Colombia of four asymptomatic-bacteriuria (ABU) screening alternatives in pregnant women: a) urine culture, b) Gram stain, c) urianalysis and d) urianalysis followed by urine culture after a positive result.Methods: Two decision trees were built...

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the etiological approach with rapid tests at the site of care compared to the syndromic diagnosis in non-pregnant women with symptoms of lower genital tract infection.Materials and Methods: A decision tree was built in TreeAge® to estimate the...

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of local vs. oral antibiotic in non-pregnant women with vaginal discharge suggestive of bacterial vaginosis.Methods: We compared four combinations of antibiotics for the first option and for the treatment of clinical failure: vaginal clindamycin and...

Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of risk stratification tests vs. not doing them in pediatric population with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health system, and including all direct...

Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health system, and including all direct costs. Pharmaceutical prices were obtained from the System of Information of Medicaments SISMED (2008), and the value of procedures was calculated from...

Objetive: To assess the cost effectiveness of unrelated stem cell transplantation versus consolidation chemotherapy in pediatric population with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML).Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health...

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of 18FDG-PET/CT compared to CT followed by 18FDG-PET/CT as a confirmatory test for a positive case at the end of treatment in patients less than 18 years with Hodgkin lymphoma.Materials and Methods: A decision tree in TreeAge® was built to compare...

Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) compared to flow cytometry to detect minimal residual disease at the end of induction in acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) patients under 18 years old.Methods: A decision tree was built in TreeAge®, with outcome measured...

Recent high rates of economic growth in India have been accompanied by major dietary transitions. Using a nationwide household survey, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper estimates the impact of such transitions on the incidence of non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes,...