Specific guidelines for assessing and improving the methodological quality of economic evaluations of newborn screening

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Economic evaluation of newborn screening poses specific methodological challenges. Amongst others, these challenges refer to the use of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) in newborns, and which costs and outcomes need to be consider...

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Main Authors: Langer Astrid, Holle Rolf, John Jürgen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-09-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/300