"Cost-Effective Analysis of Different Strategies of Hepatitis A Vaccination in Adults: A Markov Model Analysis."

According to an abstract submitted by the author to the conference entitled Digestive Disease Week, held May 16-22, in New Orleans, Louisiana, "Methods: Three different strategies of adult vaccination were compared in a hypothetical cohort of 10,000 twenty-year old subjects by constructing a Markov model using DATA 3.0 software (TreeAge softwares, Inc.) and following the cohort through their life time. In strategy I, universal vaccination with an inactivated HAV vaccine (0, 1, 12 month schedule) was pursued; in strategy II, all subjects were initially screened for presence of protective antibody by commercially available immunoassay and if susceptible, they were vaccinated. In...

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