Costs of contact tracing activities aimed at reducing the transmission of measles in Canada / A. Budden [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budden, A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measles.

Infection--Control.

Infection.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 40 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Canada : Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, 2015.

Summary:

A cost analysis was undertaken for the Canadian population from the perspective of a Canadian public health unit, in which costs to the public payer associated with the task of contact tracing, excluding costs associated with the direct treatment of case patients, were the focus. [...] One of the elements being reviewed is the 2013 PHAC Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Measles Outbreaks in Canada.30 A focus of the review is to determine sections that need to be updated and include evidence-informed recommendations to assist in preventing or reducing the spread of secondary measles infection. [...] The modelling scenario applied to each outbreak resulted in the creation of a case-day index (CDI; further explained below in the section Ortega-Sanchez), which allowed the authors to determine a range of costs for each outbreak, based on the size of the outbreak. [...] The use of a CDI, while providing an indication of both the number of cases and length of the outbreak, does not offer a good representation of the potential cost, as it neglected the number of contacts by the case patient, and thus potentially underestimated the breadth of contact tracing activities required. [...] Therefore, the following sensitivity analyses were undertaken on the outbreak population used for the primary analysis: Using the lower and upper ranges for the number of contacts per case from the current modelling scenario (based on the Dayan et al.,32 Parker et al.,33 and Sugerman et al.34 studies) Using the lower and upper ranges for the number of hours per contact from the current modelli.

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