Assessing the costs and benefits of alternative rescreening strategies

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-8

  Hutchinson, Martha L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical smears; Computer Assisted; Costbenefit analysis; Image analysis; Mass screening; Quality control

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VAGINA SMEAR;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0029684871     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333567     Document Type: Editorial

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