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Author Russell, Louise B.

Title Educated guesses : making policy about medical screening tests / Louise B. Russell
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]
©1994

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 MELB  362.1770973 Rus/Egu  AVAILABLE
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.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Author Milbank Memorial Fund.
LC no. 93008768
ISBN 0520083652 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520083660 (paperback: alk. paper)