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| Juan D. Moreno-Ternero and Carmen Herrero |
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| ''A new outcome measure for cost-utility analyses of screening programs'' |
| ( 2005, Vol. 9 No.7 ) |
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| We show that, under some plausible assumptions, the gain in QALYs a screening program offers is a positive linear transformation of the program's sensitivity level. This result simplifies considerably the cost-utility analysis of mutually exclusive screening programs. |
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JEL: I1 - Health: General
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| Manuscript Received : Sep 16 2005 | | Manuscript Accepted : Sep 19 2005 |
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