Economics of breast examination in the United States.
Screening mammography is expensive and will increasingly be challenged by professional health care economists. The cost of breast biopsies generated from screening mammography is also very significant. The breast imaging and surgical communities must accept this economic challenge and work to improve cost-effective breast health care delivery systems.
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Indiana University School of Medicine, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis 46202.
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