Barnum, Howard N. - In: Social Science & Medicine 23 (1986) 9, pp. 847-850
The cost effectiveness of short tuberculosis treatment regimes using rifampicin (R) or thambutol (E) is calculated and compared to long regimes based on thiacetazone and isoniazid (TH). Although rifampicin and ethambutol are more costly per case they are only about one half the cost of the...