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2015-06-05Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1861-8
Systematic review of models assessing the economic value of routine varicella and herpes zoster vaccination in high-income countries
dc.contributor.authorDamm, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorUltsch, Bernhard
dc.contributor.authorHorn, Johannes
dc.contributor.authorMikolajczyk, Rafael T.
dc.contributor.authorGreiner, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.authorWichmann, Ole
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T18:15:40Z
dc.date.available2018-05-07T18:15:40Z
dc.date.created2015-06-05
dc.date.issued2015-06-05none
dc.identifier.otherhttp://edoc.rki.de/oa/articles/repN85yFbv942/PDF/23sFuHAV0Ve7M.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/2067
dc.description.abstractBackground: A systematic review was conducted to assess the cost-effectiveness of routine varicella and herpes zoster (HZ) vaccination in high-income countries estimated by modelling studies. Methods: A PubMed search was performed to identify relevant studies published before October 2013. Studies were included in the review if they (i) evaluated the cost-effectiveness of routine childhood or adolescent varicella vaccination and/or HZ vaccination targeting the elderly, and if they (ii) reported results for high-income countries. Results: A total of 38 model-based studies were identified that fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Routine childhood or adolescent varicella vaccination was cost-effective or cost-saving from a payer perspective and always cost-saving from a societal perspective when ignoring its potential impact on HZ incidence due to reduced or absent exogenous boosting. The inclusion of the potential impact of childhood varicella vaccination on HZ led to net quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) losses or incremental cost-effectiveness ratios exceeding commonly accepted thresholds. Additional HZ vaccination could partially mitigate this effect. Studies focusing only on the evaluation of HZ vaccination reported a wide range of results depending on the selected target age-group and the vaccine price, but most found HZ vaccination to be a cost-effective or marginally cost-effective intervention. Cost-effectiveness of HZ vaccination was strongly dependent on the age at vaccination, the price of the vaccine, the assumed duration of protection and the applied cost per QALY threshold. Conclusions: While HZ vaccination is mostly considered cost-effective, cost-effectiveness of varicella vaccination primarily depends on the in- or exclusion of exogenous boosting in the model. As a consequence, clarification on the role of exogenous boosting is crucial for decision-making regarding varicella vaccination.eng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
dc.subjectVaccinationeng
dc.subjectCost-effectivenesseng
dc.subjectEconomic evaluationeng
dc.subjectVaricellaeng
dc.subjectZostereng
dc.subjectSystematic revieweng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin
dc.titleSystematic review of models assessing the economic value of routine varicella and herpes zoster vaccination in high-income countries
dc.typeperiodicalPart
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0257-10039561
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12889-015-1861-8
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/1992
local.edoc.container-titleBMC Public Health
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local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
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local.edoc.container-urlhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-015-1861-8
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameBioMedCentral
local.edoc.container-volume15
local.edoc.container-issue533
local.edoc.container-year2015

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