The Use of Economic Evaluation to Inform Newborn Screening Policy Decisions: The Washington State Experience

ConclusionsThe Washington State cost‐benefit models of newborn screening were broadly consistent with peer‐reviewed literature, and their findings of net benefit appear to be robust to uncertainty in parameters. Public health newborn screening programs can develop their own capacity to project expected costs and benefits of expansion of newborn screening panels, although it would be most efficient if this capacity were shared among programs.

Source: The Milbank Quarterly - June 5, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: SCOTT D. GROSSE, JOHN D. THOMPSON, YAO DING, MICHAEL GLASS Tags: Original Investigation Source Type: research