Division of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, San Antonio Regional Campus, 7411 John Smith Drive, Suite 1100, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Isr J Health Policy Res. 2013 Apr 22;2(1):15. doi: 10.1186/2045-4015-2-15.
The well-designed, model-based cost-utility analysis by Ginsberg and colleagues provides useful information on the value for money of universal GBS screening in Israel. An extended application of the model-based approach used in the study could provide policymakers additional practical information on the budget impact of a potential universal GBS screening program. Such an approach could also be used to guide future research priorities in the prevention of GBS in Israel, by measuring the value of seeking further information to reduce the uncertainty in the cost-effectiveness of universal GBS screening.This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/2/1/6.
金斯伯格及其同事进行的这项设计精良、基于模型的成本效用分析,就以色列全民 GBS 筛查的性价比提供了有用信息。该研究中所使用的基于模型方法的进一步应用,可以为决策者提供有关潜在全民 GBS 筛查计划的预算影响的更多实用信息。这种方法还可以通过衡量获取更多信息以降低全民 GBS 筛查成本效益不确定性的价值,来指导以色列 GBS 预防领域的未来研究重点。这是对 http://www.ijhpr.org/content/2/1/6 的评论。