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See Latest ArticlesTB diagnostic tests: how do we figure out their costs
Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 08/31/09
Sohn H et al. – Tuberculosis continues to be a major global health problem. Lack of accurate, rapid and cost–effective diagnostic tests poses a huge obstacle to global TB control. While several new diagnostic tools are being developed and evaluated for TB, it is important that new tools are introduced for widespread use only after careful validation of accuracy, impact as well as cost–effectiveness in real–world settings. While there are large numbers of studies on the accuracy of TB diagnostic tests, there are few studies that are focused on cost and cost–effectiveness. There are currently no widely accepted standards on how to evaluate costs of a TB test.
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