Reply to Opportunity cost of annual screening mammography
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Mammography screening: prospects and opportunity costs.
Health care costs in the United States now consume nearly 15% of the gross domestic product. Continued expansion of health expenditures may have serious economic consequences, including reduction in the standard of living. Health care reform must include cost control without consequent detrimental effects on health status. As a case example, we consider the controversy surrounding mammography s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.31195