Cost Effectiveness of Renal Disease Screening

Dodge, Warren F.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1977.02120240092020

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“…10 Dodge et al conducted urinalyses on 6 to 12 year old children and found hematuria in 0.34% of females and 0.12% of males. 11 The study of Park identified a total of 1,044 school children with hematuria and/or proteinuria during a mass school urine screening test and they were referred to pediatric nephrologists at 13 hospitals in Korea. These children had isolated hematuria (IH) (60.1%), isolated proteinuria (IP) or combined hematuria and proteinuria (CHP) (13.5%).…”

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Prevalence of Hematuria among School Children in Makkah and Baha in Saudi Arabia

Edress

Tayeb

Shandeedi

2013

JMJ

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Objective: Screening of kidney diseases by urinalysis in school children has been approved in many parts of the world with inexpensive tools such as urinary dipsticks. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of hematuria in a large sample of 6 to 15-year-old school students in Makkah and Baha, Saudi Arabia. Design: A total population of 12,347 students in primary and middle schools in Makkah and Baha, Saudi Arabia, were investigated for hematuria during 2007. There were 7,299 students in Makkah (5,007 boys and 2,292 girls) and the remaining 5,048 were in Baha (2,734 boys and 2,314 girls), aged from 6 to 15 years old. All the studied children were apparently healthy and asymptomatic. Parents' consents were taken prior to the test. A random fresh mid-stream urine was collected to complete the urine analysis (by dipstick and microscopy) to detect microscopic hematuria, albuminuria or pus cells. Measurements of the height and weight were also done and blood pressure was measured for each student. Results: Among the 12,347 students screened and urine samples provided, 2,745 (22.23%) had hematuria, 1,822 (14.76% of the total population) from Makkah and 923 (7.48%) from Baha. Analysis of the prevalence of hematuria in students in Makkah and Baha showed that there was a very highly significant difference between the two cities (P value = 0.0000). There were 842 students (7% of the total population) had positive hematuria and hypertension and 2,678 students (22%) had negative hematuria and hypertension with a highly statistically significant difference between positive hematuria students and negative students in the prevalence of hypertension (P value = 0.0044). Conclusion: Asymptomatic hematuria might be detected by the school screening program and should be considered as an inexpensive way for early management of some renal diseases.

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Prevalence of Hematuria among School Children in Makkah and Baha in Saudi Arabia

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Tayeb

Shandeedi

2013

JMJ

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“…Although, screening for the childhood asymptomatic proteinuria and hematuria was considered not cost-effective for children with benign or transient urinary abnormalities [17]. The Put Prevention Into Practice Campaign also considers screening for childhood glucosuria to be of questionable value [18].…”

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Childhood diabetes identified in mass urine screening program in Taiwan, 1993–1999

Wei

Chuang

Lin³

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Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

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“…Cost-effectiveness analysis has, in recent years, been applied to evaluate such diverse activities as alcoholism rehabilitation (Swint and Nelson, 1977), autopsy (Penner, 1978), computerized tomography (Carrera et al, 1977), mononucleosis diagnosis (English and Geyman, 1978), pharmaceutical services (McGhan et al, 1978), renal disease screening (Dodge, 1977), and use of frozen blood (Cumming et al, 1977), to name a few. The overall growth in the use and publication of cost-effectiveness analyses in the health field is shown in Table 1.…”

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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Program Evaluation

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Fortess

1980

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The growing demand for prospective evaluation enhances the popularity of cost-effectiveness analysis, a technique for identifying best uses of scarce resources. Defined in diverse ways during its short history, cost-effectiveness analysis is now seen as the evaluative comparison of monetary and nonmonetary dimensions of impact. The cost-effectiveness ratio for health programs divides monetary effects by health effects. Decisions on competing alternative programs should be resolved by regarding cost-effectiveness ratios on the differences between programs. urrent concern over the limited resources available to fund añ -~ increasing number of public programs and the need to extract maximum benefit from each dollar spent have brought about changesin program evaluation. The traditional emphasis on retrospective = evaluation, in which program performance is addressed after the fact, has been subtly shifted toward prospective evaluation: assessing program capabilities before implementation. Tools of prospective evaluation include decision analysis, benefit-cost analysis, and cost-effective-AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors thank

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Cost Effectiveness of Renal Disease Screening

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Prevalence of Hematuria among School Children in Makkah and Baha in Saudi Arabia

Prevalence of Hematuria among School Children in Makkah and Baha in Saudi Arabia

Childhood diabetes identified in mass urine screening program in Taiwan, 1993–1999

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Program Evaluation

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