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. 2008 Jul 31;337:a769. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a769

Table 2.

 Discounted costs and quality adjusted life years (QALYs) gained by human papillomavirus vaccination in base case programme (vaccination of girls aged 12 years with no catch-up programme, 80% effective vaccine coverage, quadrivalent vaccine, 100 year time horizon, and 3.5% discount rate for costs and benefits) assuming vaccine protection lasts an average of 20 years

Parameter Mean Median 5% centile 95% centile
Cost of vaccine (£m) 2225 2225 1937 2513
Cost saved (£m):
 Reduced lesion screening and treatment −48 −47 −176 61
 Cancers prevented −135 −118 −274 −55
 Warts prevented −229 −232 −300 −151
Net cost (£m) 1813 1816 1455 2169
Cost saved (£m):
 Unscreened vaccinees −16 −14 −34 −7
 Non-cervical cancers prevented −42 −34 −96 −16
 Non-vaccine type infections prevented −61 −55 −110 −34
Net cost with unscreened, non-cervical cancers, and non-vaccine type infections (£m) 1694 1701 1288 2074
QALYs gained:
 Reduced lesion screening and treatment 10 987 9 617 −783 27 607
 Cancers prevented 63 353 60 976 44 326 90 051
 Warts prevented 9530 9233 4434 15 711
Total QALYs gained 83 871 80 690 58 856 119 167
QALYS gained:
 Unscreened cohort 7444 6778 5048 12 137
 Non-cervical cancers prevented 18 033 15 171 11 085 34 924
 Non-vaccine type infections prevented (£m) 8799 7989 5378 15 531
Total QALYs gained with unscreened, non-cervical cancers, and non-vaccine type infections 118 146 111 304 82 874 177 199

£1.00 (€1.26; $1.98). Mean, median, 5% and 95% centiles of 50 000 meta-scenarios representing uncertainty in epidemiological and economic parameters are reported.