An interim determination of health gain from oral cancer and precancer screening: 1. obtaining health state utilities

Community Dental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 139-142

  Downer, M C ^a   Jullien, J A ^a   Speight, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health state; Oral cancer; Oral precancer; Questionnaire; Utility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRECANCER; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL HEALTH; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031230524     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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