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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2010 Jun 10;28(32):5245–5253. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.05.062

TABLE 5.

Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio ($US/DALY prevented) of Vaccination for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) Recurrence Prevention using the Opportunity Cost of Lost Bed-Days Approach.

Vaccine
Efficacy		 Cost of Vaccination
$800 $400 $200 $100 $50
25% 243,994 107,576 42,704 9,247 Dominant
50% 111,054 42,259 9,653 Dominant Dominant
75% 66,756 21,121 Dominant Dominant Dominant
100% 43,500 8,919 Dominant Dominant Dominant

NOTE: Dominant = Vaccination is the dominant strategy (i.e., less costly and more effective)