Introduction of birth dose of hepatitis B virus vaccine to the immunization program in Ethiopia: an economic evaluation

Table 2 Disability weights for different disease states used in the model

Disease state	Disability weight	Source
Inactive carrier	0.0	[26]
Chronic active hepatitis^a	0.01	[24]
Compensated cirrhosis	0.0	[26]
Decompensated cirrhosis	0.178	[26]
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)^b
Diagnosis and primary treatment	0.288	[26]
Metastasis	0.451	[26]
Terminal	0.54	[26]

^aFan L, presented quality adjusted life years and we simply subtracted these values from one to compute disability weights
^bWe just took the average disability weights of the different HCC stages to calculate the annual HCC disability weight of 0.43

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