An interim determination of health gain from oral cancer and precancer screening: 3. Preselecting high risk individuals

Community Dental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 72-76

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Decision analysis; Health gain; Neural network; Oral cancer; Oral precancer; Preselection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; PATIENT SELECTION; PRECANCER; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATIENT SELECTION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032088129     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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