The costs of reducing loss to follow-up in South African cervical cancer screening
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The costs of reducing loss to follow-up in South African cervical cancer screening
BACKGROUND This study was designed to quantify the resources used in reestablishing contact with women who missed their scheduled cervical cancer screening visits and to assess the success of this effort in reducing loss to follow-up in a developing country setting. METHODS Women were enrolled in this Cape Town, South Africa-based screening study between 2000 and 2003, and all had scheduled f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1478-7547
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-3-11