Costs and benefits of cervical screening. III. Cost/benefit analysis of a call of previously unscreened women.
A population-based cervical screening programme issued invitations to women with no record of a previous smear. This call was very good value, at 5780 Pounds per life saved or 159 Pounds per life-year saved at 1991 prices. The first priority for the cervical screening service should be comprehensive coverage.
Waugh
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Grampian Health Board, Aberdeen, UK.
Smith
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Robertson
A
A
Reid
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GS
Halkerston
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R
Grant
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A
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000191:economics*