Neonatal circumcision: Cost-effective preventive measure or "the unkindest cut of all"?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 688-692

  Gray, Darryl T ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIRCUMCISION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; PAIN; PENIS CARCINOMA; PHIMOSIS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 8744253526     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X04271535     Document Type: Editorial

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