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Is scaling-up COVID-19 testing cost-saving?
Bernardo Sousa-Pinto; Joao Almeida Fonseca; Altamiro Costa-Pereira; Francisco Nuno Rocha-Goncalves.
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  • Bernardo Sousa-Pinto; Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto
  • Joao Almeida Fonseca; Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences - Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • Altamiro Costa-Pereira; Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences - Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • Francisco Nuno Rocha-Goncalves; Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences - Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Preprint en En | PREPRINT-MEDRXIV | ID: ppmedrxiv-20041137
ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization currently recommends that governments scale up testing for COVID-19 infection. We performed health economic analyses projecting whether the additional costs from screening would be offset by the avoided costs with hospitalizations. We analysed Portuguese COVID-19 data up until the 22nd March 2020, and estimated the additional number of cases that would be detected if different testing rates and frequencies of positive results would have been observed. We projected that, in most scenarios, the costs with scaling up COVID-19 tests would be lower than savings with hospitalization costs, rendering large scale testing cost-saving.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 09-preprints Base de datos: PREPRINT-MEDRXIV Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies Idioma: En Año: 2020 Tipo del documento: Preprint
Texto completo: 1 Colección: 09-preprints Base de datos: PREPRINT-MEDRXIV Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies Idioma: En Año: 2020 Tipo del documento: Preprint