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Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed substantial burdens on the global society. To find an optimal combination of wastewater surveillance and clinical testing for tracking COVID-19, we evaluated the economic efficiency of hypothetical screening options at a single facility in Japan. To conduct cost-ben...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10370838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37486197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2908.221775 |
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author | Yoo, Byung-Kwang Iwamoto, Ryo Chung, Ungil Sasaki, Tomoko Kitajima, Masaaki |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed substantial burdens on the global society. To find an optimal combination of wastewater surveillance and clinical testing for tracking COVID-19, we evaluated the economic efficiency of hypothetical screening options at a single facility in Japan. To conduct cost-benefit analyses, we developed standard decision models in which we assumed model parameters from literature and primary data, such as screening policies used at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Village in 2021. We compared hypothetical 2-step screening options that used clinical PCR to diagnose COVID-19 after a positive result from primary screening using antigen tests (option 1) or wastewater surveillance (option 2). Our simulation results indicated that option 2 likely would be economically more justifiable than option 1, particularly at lower incidence levels. Our findings could help justify and promote the use of wastewater surveillance as a primary screening at a facility level for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-103708382023-08-01 Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan Yoo, Byung-Kwang Iwamoto, Ryo Chung, Ungil Sasaki, Tomoko Kitajima, Masaaki Emerg Infect Dis Research The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed substantial burdens on the global society. To find an optimal combination of wastewater surveillance and clinical testing for tracking COVID-19, we evaluated the economic efficiency of hypothetical screening options at a single facility in Japan. To conduct cost-benefit analyses, we developed standard decision models in which we assumed model parameters from literature and primary data, such as screening policies used at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Village in 2021. We compared hypothetical 2-step screening options that used clinical PCR to diagnose COVID-19 after a positive result from primary screening using antigen tests (option 1) or wastewater surveillance (option 2). Our simulation results indicated that option 2 likely would be economically more justifiable than option 1, particularly at lower incidence levels. Our findings could help justify and promote the use of wastewater surveillance as a primary screening at a facility level for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10370838/ /pubmed/37486197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2908.221775 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Emerging Infectious Diseases is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Yoo, Byung-Kwang Iwamoto, Ryo Chung, Ungil Sasaki, Tomoko Kitajima, Masaaki Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan |
title | Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan |
title_full | Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan |
title_fullStr | Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan |
title_full_unstemmed | Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan |
title_short | Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan |
title_sort | economic evaluation of wastewater surveillance combined with clinical covid-19 screening tests, japan |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10370838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37486197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2908.221775 |
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