First principles of cost-effectiveness analysis in health.
PubMedPublished 15 February 1980Open access
Donald S. Shepard, Thompson Ms
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Examples show how CEA has been applied to identify the appropriate number of screening tests to be used in detecting colon cancer and to measure the effectiveness of mobile coronary care units in a community in extending lives.
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