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C-reactive protein point of care testing in the management of acute respiratory infections in the Vietnamese primary healthcare setting - a cost benefit analysis
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Aim
We assess the cost-benefit implications of C-reactive protein (CRP) testing in reducing antibiotic prescription for acute respiratory infection in Viet Nam by comparing the incremental costs of CRP testing with the economic costs of antimicrobial resistance averted due to lower antibiotic prescribing.
Findings
Patients in the CRP group and the controls incurred similar costs in managing their illness, excluding the costs of the quantitative CRP tests, provided...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
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- 10.1186/s13756-018-0414-1
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Centre for Disease Dynamics Economics and Policy
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 119
- Publication date:
- 2018-10-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-09-26
- DOI:
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2047-2994
- ISSN:
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2047-2994
- Pubs id:
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pubs:929697
- URN:
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uri:6d787f58-2c31-4df9-9456-9521fd5f6782
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uuid:6d787f58-2c31-4df9-9456-9521fd5f6782
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- pubs:929697
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- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Lubell et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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