Song, Rachel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1396-2551
Jeet, Varinder http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3765-5310
Sharma, Rajan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4474-5296
Hoyle, Martin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5593-9777
Parkinson, Bonny http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2137-0962
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Industry and Science, Australian Government
Macquarie University
Article History
Accepted: 10 May 2022
First Online: 27 June 2022
Declarations
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: Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. Financial support for this study was provided by a Cooperative Research Centres Projects grant from the Australian Government. Cyclotek (Aust) Pty Ltd was a co-investigator on the project. The funding agreement ensured the authors’ independence in designing the study, interpreting the data, and writing and publishing the report.
: The study authors are members of an independent evaluation group for the Medical Services Advisory Committee. The Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy receives funding for conducting evaluations of medical services and diagnostics for the Medical Services Advisory Committee. The views expressed in the paper are not those of the Commonwealth Government of Australia.
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: All model inputs and model outputs are available within the main text or supplementary material. The economic model was developed in Microsoft Excel and is available upon request.
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: BP conceived the idea for the study, and BP and MH managed the study. RS, BP and VJ developed the conceptual economic model. RS and BP built the model and conducted the economic analysis. All authors were involved in interpreting the results and revising the final manuscript.