The economics of diagnosis

Health Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1109-1120

  Laking, George ^a   Lord, Joanne ^b   Fischer, Alastair ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness analysis; Diagnosis; Diagnostic tests; Receiver operator curve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33750197462     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1114     Document Type: Article

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