Table 4 Primary studies with utility weights used in economic evaluations evaluating the impact of syphilis infections
Lead author | Study aims | Participant characteristics | Participant age | Number of participants | Techniques used | Health states valued and utility weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bennett (2000) [43] | Describe parents' values for outcomes of acute occult bacteraemia using utility assessment | Parents presenting to paediatric ED in an urban children's hospital with a child between 3-36 months | 27·8 (SD 6·6) | 94 | Visual analogue scale, followed by chained standard gamble | Meningitis with minor brain damage = 0·7393 |
Castillo (2021) [40] | Modelling cost-effectiveness of syphilis detection strategies in prisons in Chile | Chileans living in metro areas | 46·83 (SD 0·4) | 1695 | Interviews from two populations of syphilis patients were combined and applied to a Chilean EQ-5D valuation | Susceptible = 1; Any of infected stage 1, infected stage 2, latent or tertiary = 0·737; Immune = 1 |