PLoS Med. 2011 Jul;8(7):e1001063. Epub 2011 Jul 26.

Is scale-up worth it? Challenges in economic analysis of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis.

Dowdy DW, Cattamanchi A, Steingart KR, Pai M.

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Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America. ddowdy@jhsph.edu

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David Dowdy and colleagues discuss the complexities of costing new TB diagnostic tests, including GeneXpert, and argue that flexible analytic tools are needed for decision-makers to adapt large-sample cost-effectiveness data to local conditions.

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