title: Paying for diagnostic accuracy.
abstract: One of the difficult problems facing managers is how to evaluate the benefits to be gained from introducing a new diagnostic test that may be more accurate--but also more expensive. What analyses can be applied to help the hospital make the choice to switch or not?
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique / Q000191:economics; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D013588:Syphilis Serodiagnosis / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States