Costs of Posttreatment Surveillance for Patients With Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancer
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Costs of posttreatment surveillance for patients with upper aerodigestive tract cancer.
OBJECTIVES To determine the range of recommended follow-up strategies for patients with upper aerodigestive tract cancer treated with curative intent and to estimate the cost of follow-up. DESIGN Economic analyses of the costs associated with 31 follow-up strategies (12 generic and 19 site specific) identified from a MEDLINE search of the literature for 1978 to 1997 and a search of major text...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0886-4470
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.124.5.564