Cost-effectiveness analysis of rapid diagnostic test, microscopy and syndromic approach in the diagnosis of malaria in Nigeria: implications for scaling-up deployment of ACT

Table 4 Base Case Result at Malaria Prevalence level of 40%

Baseline Cohort of 100,000 Malaria Cases from the TreeAge Result
Strategy	Cost($)	Incremental cost ($)	Effect	Incremental effect	Death Averted	Incremental cost per death averted ($)
Presumptive treatment	365,426		99,735
RDT	337,466	-27,960	99,862	127	4	-221
Microscopy	394,247	28,821	99,851	116	4	257

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