Urinary test use for cancer screening: An underestimated health economics pitfall? [1]

Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 366-367

  Panou, Charalampos ^a   Alevizaki, Paraskevi ^a   Mauri, Davide ^a,b   Ioakimidou, Aliki ^a   Vittoraki, Angeliki ^a   Spiliopoulou, Anastasia ^a   Chasioti, Dimitra ^a   Loukidou, Evridiki ^a   Kouris, Georgios ^c   Pentheroudakis, Georgios ^b  

^a Laboratory Medicine

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c General Hospital Mantzavinatio   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER SCREENING; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; URINE CULTURE; URINE CYTOLOGY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; URINALYSIS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3042836095     PISSN: 00222143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lab.2004.03.002     Document Type: Letter

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