Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Screening for Colorectal Cancer in Japan

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 269-278

  Tsuji, Ichiro ^a   Fukao, Akira ^a   Hisamichi, Shigeru ^a   Shoji, Tadami ^b   Kuwajima, Ichiro ^b   Sugawara, Nobuyuki ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Prefectural Medical Center for Adults ^*  (Japan)

^c Miyagi Medical Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

colorectal cancer screening; cost effectiveness analysis; simulation study

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ENEMA;

ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; OCCULT BLOOD; RECTUM TUMOR; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

BARIUM SULFATE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OCCULT BLOOD; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0026201413     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.164.269     Document Type: Article

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