Cost of mammography guidelines: lives lost.(NEWS)Wachter, Kerri
Screening mammography performed annually on all women beginning at age 40 years has reduced breast cancer deaths by 30% to 50%. The cost per year of life saved is well within the range for other commonly accepted medical interventions. Various studies have estimated that reduction in treatment c...
Cost-Effectiveness of Mammography for Older Women. Presents a letter to the editor about cost-effectiveness of mammography for older women. Finucane,Thomas,E. - 《Annals of Internal Medicine》 被引量: 0发表: 2004年 The Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Mammography beyond Age 65 Years: A ...
Studies have demonstrated the cost-effectiveness of screening women for breast cancer; however, the cost-effectiveness of strategies to motivate women to receive breast cancer screening has been less well studied. Methods. A total of 196 women, aged 50 to 74, who were enrolled in a public ...
To identify and evaluate the costs of implementing a print-based mammography promotion intervention and the cost-effectiveness of four alternative protocols for contacting the target population and obtaining a response to the baseline survey. Data are from a random sample of 8446 individuals from the...
PCN38 Cost-Effectiveness of Mammography As a Screening Test for EARLY Detection of Breast CancerD.S. Jervis-JalabeM.L. Rua-QuintanaC.C. AvendaoT. Beltran-VenegasG.G. Gaviria-GarciaN. Alvis-GuzmanJ. Orozco AfricanoF. Olivares-Cerpa
Risk Factors for Second Screen-Detected or Interval Breast Cancers in Women with a Personal History of Breast Cancer Participating in Mammography Screening Women with a personal history of breast cancer (PHBC) have increased risk of an interval cancer. We aimed to identify risk factors for second ...
BreastScreen WA screens about 55% of Western Australian women aged 50-69 years every 2 years - but it had noted falling participation rates over recent years that could not be explained by attrition to private mammography. The authors concluded that mammographic screening services should try to ...
Wender questioned the assumptions behind the new study, saying that the authors made a "very selective choice of estimates" for the rates of false positives and overdiagnosis. "There is no debate about the benefits of mammography," he said. ...
Screening mammography in women aged 40-49 years: analysis of cost-effectiveness. PURPOSE: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of screening mammography in women 40-49 years old. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A Markov model compared two hypotheti... CJ Rosenquist,KK Lindfors - 《Radiology》 被引量: 84...