Teigen, David http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5495-326X
Opoka, Robert O.
Kasirye, Phillip
Nabaggala, Catherine
Hume, Heather A.
Blomberg, Bjørn
John, Chandy C.
Ware, Russell E.
Robberstad, Bjarne
Funding for this research was provided by:
Norges Forskningsråd
University of Bergen
Article History
Accepted: 7 June 2023
First Online: 18 July 2023
Declarations
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: The Norwegian Research Council through The Medical Student Research Program at The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bergen funded DT, while other authors contributed time in their academic positions. The funder had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the manuscript.
: Dr. Ware discloses research donations from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Addmedica, and Hemex Health, and to have received fees as a medical advisor for Nova Laboratories and as chair for the data and safety monitoring board of one clinical trial by Novartis and one by Editas. Dr. John Discloses research donations from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (ICRA 2016156).
: The Makerere University College of Health Sciences School of Medicine Research Ethics Committee (SOMREC), Uganda, approved this study. We based analyses on anonymized and published data on health outcomes, and cost data at facility level based on a review of treatment guidelines, expert interviews, hospital records such as stock cards, and publicly available price information.
: Data collected for this study—the costing tool with inputs required to calculate the cost of outpatient treatment—will be made available upon reasonable request sent to the corresponding author from the time of publication. No patient-level data was included in this data set.
: ROO, CCJ, and BR conceptualized the study idea, while DT and BR designed the study. BR, ROO, and CN reviewed the study protocol drafted by DT. DT constructed the decision model, conducted formal analyses, and interpreted the data, supervised by BR. DT collected the cost data, supervised by ROO and BR, with the on-site consultancies from CN, RK, and HH. REW, HH, CCJ, ROO, and CN validated the decision model and its inputs, suggested data sources, and provided expert opinions. DT and BR had access to underlying primary data. DT and BR wrote the first draft of the paper. All authors reviewed and approved the manuscript before submission.
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