… The objectives of this study are to compare the cost-effectiveness of adding one-time CHC
screening of the adult US population to the current risk factor-based approach to improve …

… influence HIV transmission in the overall population or the course of the epidemic. To …
population-wide effects (new HIV infections and other health outcomes) and the cost-effectiveness …

… to the recommendations of the Panel on Cost-effectiveness Analysis (14). … outcomes for
each person in the population over a 30-year horizon, noting when each event and outcome …

… When the direct effect of the intervention on the outcome of interest is … outcome. Mathematical
models commonly are used now to assess the relative effectiveness and cost effectiveness …

… Other strategies recommended by the expert panel were either less effective or cost more
per year of life gained than the alternatives. Colonoscopy every 10 years was less effective …

… outcomes, life expectancy, and costs. For all cost and health outcomes used in the cost-effectiveness
calculations, we computed population-weighted averages that combined outcomes …

… Although we take no issue with the sophisticated methods used to compute the component
values of cost and effectiveness, we will show that the conventional cost-effectiveness ratio …

Background. The combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine shows promise as HIV
preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). We sought to forecast clinical, epidemiologic, and economic …

… effectiveness and cost. Interventions that are both more effective in improving total health
outcomes and cost … has increased costs and improved outcomes relative to another strategy it …

… using combinations of lower and upper HSUs that move the cost-effectiveness results in
the same direction (ie, so that all selected HSUs either increase or reduce cost effectiveness). …