A New Outcome Measure for Cost-Utility Analyses of Screening Programs

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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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Herrero, Carmen ; Moreno Ternero, Juan D.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse \| Cost-benefit analysis \| Theorie \| Theory
Description of contents:	Abstract [papers.ssrn.com]

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Economics Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 1-8, 2005 Volltext nicht verfügbar
Classification:	I10 - Health. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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