Health technology assessment and screening in Sweden

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 380-388

  Jonsson, Egon ^a   David Banta, H ^b   Scherstén, Tore ^c  

^a Swedish Council for Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU)   (Sweden)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c SBU ^*

Author keywords

Health technology assessment; Mammography; PSA; Screening; Ultrasound in pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; SCREENING; SCREENING TEST; SWEDEN; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034901314     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266462301106094     Document Type: Article

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