BACKGROUND: The prevalence of @entity740 ( @entity740 ) is high in general populations around the world. Targeted testing and screening for @entity740 are often conducted to help identify individuals that may benefit from treatment to ameliorate or prevent their disease progression. AIMS: This systematic review examines the methods used in economic evaluations of testing and screening in @entity740 , with a particular focus on whether test accuracy has been considered, and how analysis has incorporated issues that may be important to the @entity1 , such as the impact of testing on quality of life and the costs they incur. METHODS: Articles that described model-based economic evaluations of @entity1 testing interventions focused on @entity740 were identified through the searching of electronic databases and the hand searching of the bibliographies of the included studies. RESULTS: The initial electronic searches identified 2,671 papers of which 21 were included in the final review. Eighteen studies focused on @entity644 , three evaluated glomerular filtration rate testing and one included both tests. The full impact of inaccurate test results was frequently not considered in economic evaluations in this setting as a societal perspective was rarely adopted. The impact of false positive tests on @entity1 in terms of the costs incurred in re-attending for repeat testing, and the @entity148 associated with a positive test was almost always overlooked. In one study where the impact of a false positive test on @entity1 quality of life was examined in sensitivity analysis, it had a significant impact on the conclusions drawn from the model. CONCLUSION: Future economic evaluations of kidney function testing should examine testing and monitoring pathways from the perspective of @entity1 , to ensure that issues that are important to @entity1 , such as the possibility of inaccurate test results, are properly considered in the analysis.

Methods Used in Economic Evaluations of XXXX Testing - A Systematic Review.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity644 :: ('MESH:D011507', 'Disease') :: ['proteinuria'] @entity148 :: ('MESH:D001008', 'Disease') :: ['anxiety'] @entity740 :: ('MESH:D051436', 'Disease') :: ['CKD', 'chronic kidney disease']
@entity740 :: (MESH:D051436,Disease) :: ['Chronic Kidney Disease']
