Costs and Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly (open access)

Costs and Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly

In this paper OTA summarizes the evidence on the effectiveness and costs of colorectal cancer screening in the elderly and explores the implications for Medicare of offering this preventive technology as a Medicare benefit. Nowhere are the hard choices between potential medical benefits and high costs illustrated more clearly than with this cancer screening technology.
Date: September 1990
Creator: Wagner, Judith L.; Duffy, Brigitte; Wadhwa, Sandeep & Jakubowski, Lara
System: The UNT Digital Library