Cost-effectiveness analysis of colorectal cancer screening methods in Iran

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-114

  Allameh, Zahra ^a   Davari, Majid ^b   Eammi, Mohammad Hasan ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Faculty of Science   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Cost effectiveness; Iran; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

AGED; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 79952978691     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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