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Cost Effectiveness and Cost Benefit of Vaccination Against Pneumococcal Pneumonia. Implications for Clinical Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jane Sisk Willems
Jane Sisk Willems*
Affiliation:
Health Program, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C
*
Health Program, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. 20510
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Abstract

The economic techniques of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis have provided useful insights into the potential advantages of vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia. They suggest that the cost of vaccinating persons 65 years and older and perhaps younger persons with high risk conditions would be reasonable when compared with the cost of treatment for pneumococcal pneumonia. These findings, together with other considerations, may guide physicians and health care policymakers in deciding which individuals might be expected to benefit from pneumococcal vaccination.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , August 1982 , pp. 299 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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