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The impact of maternal age on the cost effectiveness of Down's syndrome screening
Author(s) -
Dunstan F. D. J.,
Nix A. B. J.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb11061.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , family medicine , medicine , computer science
The impact of maternal age on the cost effectiveness of Down’s syndrome screening Table 1. Four strategies for achieving an average detection rate of approximately 64.8%. FPR = false positive rate. Sir, It is well known that in a screening programme for Down’s synposterior risk i~~ FPR Cost per case detected: drome, the performance depends on the maternal ages of the women cutoff threshold rate (%) fO being screened, though this point is often ignored when different screening protocols are compared, and so the paper by Torgerson (Vol 103, June 1996)’, in stressing this point, is to be welcomed. None 11250 64.9 4.6 E43,814 f56,933 Unfortunatelv. however. it contains some maior flaws: 21 11300 64.5 5.2 €36,024 f49,376 €20,000