Is it cost effective to introduce screening programmes for colorectal cancer? Illustrating the principles of optimal resource allocation

Health Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 189-199

  Gyrd Hansen, Dorte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Cost effectiveness analysis; Optimal resource allocation; Screening programmes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030828890     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(97)00031-6     Document Type: Article

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