Universal or targeted screening for fetal alcohol exposure: A cost-effectiveness analysis

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 510-519

  Hopkins, Robert B ^a   Paradis, Jon ^a,b   Roshankar, Tozheg ^a,b   Bowen, James ^a   Tarride, Jean Eric ^a   Blackhouse, Gord ^a   Lim, Morgan ^a   O'Reilly, Daria ^a   Goeree, Ron ^a   Longo, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; EARLY INTERVENTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MECONIUM; MECONIUM TEST; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FATTY ACID;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MECONIUM; MODELS, ECONOMIC; NEONATAL SCREENING; ONTARIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 52049100160     PISSN: 19371888     EISSN: 19384114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2008.69.510     Document Type: Article

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