Online Cost-Effectiveness ANalysis (OCEAN) : a user-friendly interface to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses for cervical cancer
Moriña, David (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Matemàtiques)
Martí, José Ignacio (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge)
Puig, Pedro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Matemàtiques)
Díaz Sanchís, Mireia (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	Most cost-effectiveness analyses in the context of cervical cancer prevention involve the use of mathematical models to simulate HPV infection, cervical disease and prevention strategies. However, it is common for professionals who would need to perform these analyses to not be familiar with the models. This work introduces the Online Cost-Effectiveness ANalysis tool, featuring an easy-to-use web interface providing health professionals, researchers and decision makers involved in cervical cancer prevention programmes with a useful instrument to conduct complex cost-effectiveness analyses, which are becoming an essential tool as an approach for supporting decision-making that involves important trade-offs. The users can run cost-effectiveness evaluations of cervical cancer prevention strategies without deep knowledge of the underlying mathematical model or any programming language, obtaining the most relevant costs and health outcomes in a user-friendly format. The results provided by the tool are consistent with the existing literature. Having such a tool will be an asset to the cervical cancer prevention community, providing researchers with an easy-to-use instrument to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses.
Grants:	Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI16-01254 Instituto de Salud Carlos III RD12-0036-0056 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PIE16-00049 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI14-01219 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI11-02090 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI16-01254 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017SGR1718 European Commission 603019 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MDM-2014-0445 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RTI2018-096072-B-I00
Note:	Altres ajuts: This work was supported by RecerCaixa (2015ACUP00129). David Moriña acknowledges financial support from [...] and from Fundación Santander Universidades.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Cervical cancer screening ; Markov chain model ; Cost-effectiveness ; Online tool ; Cancer prevention ; Decision making
Published in:	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Vol. 20 (september 2020) , ISSN 1472-6947

DOI: 10.1186/s12911-020-01232-9
PMID: 32887589

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