Cost-effectiveness of hospital vaccination programs in North Carolina

Economic value of influenza vaccination

“…Of the selected 31 studies, five were excluded from the full text reading 4,16-19 and six because full texts were not available. [20][21][22][23][24][25] In conclusion, 20 full economic evaluations were included (Fig. 1).…”

“…1). [1][2][3][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Of the 20 studies included, six (30%) were conducted in Europe (UK, Italy, France, Germany and Netherlands) 26,[34][35][36]38,41 and 14 (70%) [1][2][3][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]37,39,40,42 in extra-European countries, mainly in the US.…”

“…Twelve studies (60%) 2,27,29,31,32,[34][35][36][37][38][39]42 were focused on people aged 65 and above: Maciosek et al 31 also included people over 50 y, two studies chose only people between 65 and 74 y 34,37 and Turner et al 35 also addressed high risk adult patients.…”

“…Of the 14 papers which clearly explained these methods, 10 (71.4%) 2,3,27,29,33,37,[39][40][41][42] also provided the details of the subjects from whom evaluations were obtained (item 13). Ten studies (50%) [27][28][29][30][34][35][36]39,41,42 did not report separately the productivity changes (item 14), and in the papers where costs and benefits were not discounted, no explanation was given except for one study 40 (item 25). Only four studies (20%) 2,28,31,36 did not clearly describe the methods followed to estimate resources used and their unit costs (item 17), and eight evaluations (40%) 2,27,28,30,34,37,39,41 did not report them separately (item 16).…”

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Television Campaign to Promote Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Among the Elderly

“…Other past similar interventions targeted specific populations, for example, a reminder intervention among a specific insurer's enrollees (ICER $3.98-$18.57 per vaccinated individual) [47], a reminder intervention among patients admitted to a hospital (ICER $77.07-$551.00 per vaccinated individual, including influenza vaccine administration cost) [48], and financial incentives to the primary care physicians (ICER $7.08 per vaccinated individual) [49]. The deterministic model used point estimates of all model parameters with an assumption of no vaccine delay/shortage during the influenza vaccination season.…”