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Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Clinically Driven versus Routine Laboratory Monitoring of Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda and Zimbabwe
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Background: Despite funding constraints for treatment programmes in Africa, the costs and economic consequences of routine laboratory monitoring for efficacy and toxicity of antiretroviral therapy (ART) have rarely been evaluated. Methods: Cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted in the DART trial (ISRCTN13968779). Adults in Uganda/Zimbabwe starting ART were randomised to clinically-driven monitoring (CDM) or laboratory and clinical monitoring (LCM); individual patient data on healthcare res...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0033672
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE More from this journal
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- e33672-e33672
- Publication date:
- 2012-04-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2012-02-14
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1932-6203
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English
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pubs:422756
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422756
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2014-02-08
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- Medina Lara et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- © 2012 Medina Lara et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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