Table 5.
Scenario analysis: Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) for appropriately treated malaria patient from a health sector perspective in US$ comparing microscopy and RDT diagnostic methods with paracetamol in two regions of Afghanistan, 2009
| Moderate transmission region | Low transmission region | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area with microscopes | Area without microscopes | ||||||||
| Microscopy | RDT | Paracetamol | Microscopy | RDT | Paracetamol | Clinical | RDT | Paracetamol | |
| Appropriately treated malaria patients (%) | 21.03 | 21.01 | 0.00 | 0.78 | 0.38 | 0.00 | 0.00& | 0.00& | 0.00& |
| Health sector cost per patient in US$ | 2.57 | 2.55 | 0.48 | 8.94 | 1.85 | 0.38 | 0.50 | 1.84 | 0.38 |
| ICER, RDT versus paracetamol | 9.85 | 384.20 | - | ||||||
| ICER, microscopy versus paracetamol | 9.94 | 1101.21 | - | ||||||
& No malaria cases.