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How much diagnostic safety can we afford, and how should we decide? A health economics perspective

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  • David E Newman-Toker Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kathryn M McDonald Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research/Center for Health Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David O Meltzer Department of Medicine, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr David E Newman-Toker, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Meyer 8-154, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; toker{at}jhu.edu
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Newman-Toker DE, McDonald KM, Meltzer DO
How much diagnostic safety can we afford, and how should we decide? A health economics perspective
BMJ Quality & Safety 2013;22:ii11-ii20.

Publication history

  • Received April 1, 2013
  • Revised August 7, 2013
  • Accepted August 8, 2013
  • First published September 18, 2013.
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July 30, 2016

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