Antenatal Syphilis Screening Using Point-of-Care Testing in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Kuznik, Andreas ^a,b   Lamorde, Mohammed ^a   Nyabigambo, Agnes ^a   Manabe, Yukari C ^a,c  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BUDGET; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INCOME; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; TEST STRIP; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UNCERTAINTY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LIVE BIRTH; MASS SCREENING; PENICILLIN G BENZATHINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 84889016938     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001545     Document Type: Article

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