Title Educated guesses : making policy about medical screening tests / Louise B. Russell

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994] ©1994

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Description xv, 128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Screening for Cervical Cancer -- 3. Screening for Prostate Cancer -- 4. Screening for High Blood Cholesterol -- 5. Conclusions Analysis Cholesterol Cost effectiveness analysis Diagnostic services Gynaecologic cancer Overseas item Prostate cancer Statistics United States Notes "A copublication with the Milbank Memorial Fund." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references page (97-121) and index Subject Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Diagnosis -- Cost effectiveness. Hypercholesteremia -- Diagnosis -- Cost effectiveness. Medical screening -- Cost effectiveness. Medical screening -- Government policy -- United States. Prostate -- Cancer -- Diagnosis -- Cost effectiveness. Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- diagnosis. Diagnostic Tests, Routine -- utilizatin Hypercholesterolemia -- diagnosis. Predictive Value of Tests. Preventive Health Services -- economics. Prostatic Neoplasms -- diagnosis. United States. United States. Author Milbank Memorial Fund. LC no. 93008768 ISBN 0520083652 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520083660 (paperback: alk. paper)

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