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Cost Effectiveness of Lead Screening
New England Journal of Medicine, 1982Lead-screening programs may reduce childhood disabilities, but at what cost? Through a review of the literature, we performed a cost-effectiveness analysis in which the costs, savings, and health benefits of two lead-screening strategies--employing either a free erythrocyte protoporphyrin assay or blood lead measurement--were compared with each other ...
Berwick, Donald, Komaroff, Anthony
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Costs and benefits of cervical screening. I. The costs of the cervical screening programme
Cytopathology, 1996In 1991, the average total Health Service cost of a cervical smear, including follow up at the colposcopy clinic, was almost £22.70 in the Perth and Kinross district of Scotland. The average cost per colposcopy clinic visit was £30. The main cost elements were in general practice (55% of total) and the laboratory (33%), and most of the cost was for ...
N, Waugh +5 more
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Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening
Radiology, 2001To determine the most cost-effective colorectal cancer screening strategy costing less than $100,000 per life-year saved and to determine how available strategies compare with each other.Standardized methods were used to calculate incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) from published estimates of cost and effectiveness of colorectal cancer ...
McMahon, PM +5 more
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The cost of irregular antibody screening
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1988The cost of irregular antibody screening in the third trimester exceeds +600,000.00 per perinatal death averted. This cost appears prohibitive compared with the clinical impact of the disease and costs of other screening tests.
V A, Barss, F D, Frigoletto, A, Konugres
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1985
To the Editor.— Some of the difficulties involved in recommendations for cancer screening are nicely illustrated by the consecutive questions in your June 14, 1985, issue. Dr Logan emphasizes in his answer regarding fibrocystic breast disease that the American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, and American College of Radiology recommend ...
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To the Editor.— Some of the difficulties involved in recommendations for cancer screening are nicely illustrated by the consecutive questions in your June 14, 1985, issue. Dr Logan emphasizes in his answer regarding fibrocystic breast disease that the American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, and American College of Radiology recommend ...
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The psychological costs of screening for cancer
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1992The benefits of cancer screening programmes accrue to those who have cancer or identifiable precancerous conditions, and in whom the disease progression is slowed or halted by earlier intervention. The costs accrue to the rest of the population for whom there is no direct benefit to health.
J, Wardle, R, Pope
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Costs of Screening for Breast Cancer
Radiologic Clinics of North America, 1987A cost-benefit analysis clearly shows that the costs for screening a large population of asymptomatic women are well within the cost-benefit range that is accepted for other areas within the medical care system. If profit and loss were the only considerations, one would opt for screening with combined examination for all women age 40 and older.
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Mass Screening: Is It Cost-effective?
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1980Reported elsewhere in this issue (p 2056) is the experience of a local cancer detection center in finding cancer of the colon. This report, along with others concerning the routine periodic screening of the asymptomatic population, raises questions regarding the benefits derived from mass screening vs the costs.
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Screening Mammography: Costs and Use of Screening-related Services
Radiology, 2005To determine the costs and screening-related services in women undergoing screening mammography.Study procedures were approved by the institutional committee for the protection of human subjects, and participants gave prior written consent. Data from a statewide mammography registry were used to identify imaging examinations, clinical consultations ...
Steven P, Poplack +5 more
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