A new outcome measure for cost-utility analyses of screening programs

Juan Moreno-Ternero and Carmen Herrero ()

Economics Bulletin, 2005, vol. 9, issue 7, 1-8

Abstract: 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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Date: 2005-09-19
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