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Cost-effectiveness of using the Cervex-Brush (broom) compared to the elongated spatula for collection of conventional cervical cytology samples within a high-burden HIV setting: a model-based analysis
- Source :
- BMC Health Services Research
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature
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Abstract
- Background From 2010 to 2014, approximately 2 million Pap smears from HIV-infected women were submitted to the South African National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) through the national cervical cancer screening programme. The objective of this analysis was to determine whether using the plastic Cervex brush (“broom”) would be a cost-effective approach to improve cytology specimen quality as compared to the wooden spatula used currently. Methods A decision analysis model was built using the expected adequacy rates for samples collected with the spatula (
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Cost effectiveness
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
HIV Infections
medicine.disease_cause
Specimen Handling
law.invention
South Africa
law
Cytology
Humans
Medicine
Cytisus
Vaginal Smears
Gynecology
business.industry
Obstetrics
Broom
Health Policy
Brush
Cervical cytology
Papanicolaou Test
Surgical Instruments
Specimen Quality
Female
Laboratories
business
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726963
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Health Services Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0176dc5d45948dc6f0e0fa4d568a4abf
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-1163-y