Mycobacterial Diseases
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-1068
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ISSN: 2161-1068
+44 1478 350008
Reka Bodnar
Budapest
Hungary
Research Article
Cost of Tuberculosis in Childhood
Author(s): Reka Bodnar, Laszlo Kadar, Akos Somoskovi and Agnes MeszarosReka Bodnar, Laszlo Kadar, Akos Somoskovi and Agnes Meszaros
Background: Cost of management of tuberculosis (TB) has high expenses from both patient and health insurance perspective.
Methods: A systematic review on cost analysis of TB in children was executed in Ovid-MEDLINE for the period 1991-2011. Search terms were tuberculosis, cost and childhood. Review articles, commentaries, letters were excluded.
Results: The first search resulted 156 articles, after linguistic and content screening 16 articles were considered for further analysis. The topics related to the cost-analysis were latent tuberculosis infection, BCG vaccination, cost-effectiveness of TB control program, TB screening, extrapulmonary TB, TB in resource rich and resource poor countries.
Conclusion: After processing the results of the articles, it was identified that tuberculosis screening.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2161-1068.1000102