Economic evaluation of an educational campaign for early diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 146-155

  Garattini, Livio ^a,d   Cainelli, Tullio ^b   Tribbia, Giuliana ^c   Scopelliti, Diego ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^d CESAV   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TUMOR;

EID: 0030050880     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00019053-199609020-00006     Document Type: Article

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