The Thousand-Dollar Pap Smear
| Autor: | Cheryl Bettigole |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Vaginal Smears
Gynecology medicine.medical_specialty Screening test Cost–benefit analysis Clinical Laboratory Techniques business.industry Cost-Benefit Analysis MEDLINE Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Health Care Costs General Medicine Papanicolaou Test Unnecessary Procedures United States Family medicine Health care medicine Liberian dollar Humans Female Physician's Role business |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 369:1486-1487 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejmp1307295 |
| Popis: | How did we arrive at a system in which a cheap screening test whose cost-effectiveness assumes a price of $20 to $30 could become a four-figure budget item? Multiple steps are involved, but the net result is skyrocketing health care costs and skipped screenings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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