Cost-effectiveness of oral cancer screening: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial in India
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate oral cancer screening by visual inspection. METHODS: A cluster randomized controlled trial was initiated in Trivandrum district, Kerala, India. Of 13 population clusters, seven were randomly allocated to three rounds of screening between 1996 and 2004, while standard care was...
Main Authors: | Sujha Subramanian, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Bela Bapat, Thara Somanathan, Gigi Thomas, Babu Mathew, Jissa Vinoda, Kunnambath Ramadas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2009-03-01
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Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000300014&lng=en&tlng=en |
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