Open AccessBlood Screening for West Nile Virus: The Cost-Effectiveness of a Real-Time, Trigger-Based Strategy
Author(s) -
Caroline Korves,
S. J. Goldi,
Megan Murray
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/506570
Subject(s) - west nile virus , medicine , virology , cost effectiveness , virus , intensive care medicine , risk analysis (engineering)
Previous studies have demonstrated that universal blood screening for West Nile virus is not cost-effective. A newly proposed, real-time, trigger-based screening strategy was analyzed and was also shown to be not cost-effective. These results were highly sensitive to pricing of screening assays.
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