Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath), Barcelona, Spain.
Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2020 Sep 4;20(1):211. doi: 10.1186/s12911-020-01232-9.
Most cost-effectiveness analyses in the context of cervical cancer prevention involve the use of mathematical models to simulate HPV infection, cervical disease and prevention strategies. However, it is common for professionals who would need to perform these analyses to not be familiar with the models. This work introduces the Online Cost-Effectiveness ANalysis tool, featuring an easy-to-use web interface providing health professionals, researchers and decision makers involved in cervical cancer prevention programmes with a useful instrument to conduct complex cost-effectiveness analyses, which are becoming an essential tool as an approach for supporting decision-making that involves important trade-offs.
The users can run cost-effectiveness evaluations of cervical cancer prevention strategies without deep knowledge of the underlying mathematical model or any programming language, obtaining the most relevant costs and health outcomes in a user-friendly format. The results provided by the tool are consistent with the existing literature.
Having such a tool will be an asset to the cervical cancer prevention community, providing researchers with an easy-to-use instrument to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses.
大多数宫颈癌预防的成本效益分析都涉及使用数学模型来模拟 HPV 感染、宫颈疾病和预防策略。然而，进行这些分析的专业人员通常不熟悉这些模型。本研究引入了在线成本效益分析工具，它具有易于使用的网络界面，为参与宫颈癌预防计划的卫生专业人员、研究人员和决策者提供了一个有用的工具，以进行复杂的成本效益分析，随着需要进行重要权衡的决策支持方法的发展，这些分析正变得越来越重要。
用户无需深入了解底层数学模型或任何编程语言，即可运行宫颈癌预防策略的成本效益评估，以用户友好的格式获得最相关的成本和健康结果。该工具提供的结果与现有文献一致。
拥有这样的工具将是宫颈癌预防界的一项资产，为研究人员提供了一个易于使用的工具来进行成本效益分析。
