Estimating Cost-Effectiveness of Confirmatory Oral Food Challenges in the Diagnosis of Children With Food Allergy
Introduction . Food allergies affect 8% of the pediatric population in the United States with an estimated annual cost of US$25 billion. The low specificity of some of the main food allergy tests used in diagnosis may generate false positives incurring unnecessary costs. We examined the cost-effecti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Global Pediatric Health |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2333794X19891298 |