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Blood screening for west nile virus: the cost-effectiveness of a real-time, trigger-based strategy
Caroline T Korves1, Sue J Goldie, Megan B Murray
1Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. ck2187@columbia.edu
Abstract:
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.
