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. 2016 Mar 15;13(3):e1001975. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001975

Table 1. Parameters for the cost-effectiveness model.

Description Baseline Value Values for Uncertainty Analysis Values for Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis Source
Risk of EV71-HFMD (per 100,000 births) Dirichlet distribution with parameters equal to one plus the number of mild, severe, and fatal cases National HFMD surveillance database and virological surveillance records from 31 provinces during 2010–2013. Values for uncertainty analysis corresponded to the risk estimates across the 19 scenarios in Fig 2B. Values for probabilistic sensitivity analysis corresponded to the conjugate posterior distributions for multinomial likelihood assuming that the priors were a non-informative Dirichlet distribution (all parameters equal to one).
 Mild, P mild 3,088 2,932–7,077
 Severe, P severe 83 75–107
 Fatal, P fatal 3.13 3.04–3.53
Expected cost due to EV71-HFMD per birth including productivity loss of parents/caregivers Expected cost and QALY loss in each severity–region stratum followed bivariate normal distribution with mean and covariance matrix shown in S12 Table Telephone survey of parents/caregivers of 1,787 laboratory-confirmed EV71-HFMD pediatric cases. Expected cost and QALY loss in each severity–region stratum were estimated using the central limit theorem.
 Mild, C mild 7.86
 Severe, C severe 2.68
 Fatal, C fatal 0.08
Expected cost due to EV71-HFMD per birth excluding productivity loss of parents/caregivers
 Mild, C mild 6.11
 Severe, C severe 2.57
 Fatal, C fatal 0.07
Expected QALY loss due to EV71-HFMD per birth
 Mild, Q mild 11.2 × 10−5
 Severe, Q severe 1.24 × 10−5
 Fatal, Q fatal 95.3 × 10−5
Discount rate for cost and health utility 3% 3% or 6% Assumed
Willingness-to-pay threshold 1 × GDPpc 1 or 3 × GDPpc Assumed
Proportion of EV71-HFMD cases registered by national surveillance 1 1 or 0.74 with parameter uncertainty Beta distribution with mean 0.74 and standard deviation 0.053 Comparison of the incidence rate of EV71-HFMD in the three vaccine trials with that in the national surveillance