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02.09.2024 | Colorectal Cancer

Watch and Wait is Changing: We Need to Change How We Count Costs

verfasst von: Christopher Rao, FRCS(Gen), PhD, Arthur Sun Myint, FRCR

Erschienen in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Ausgabe 12/2024

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Murshed et al. should be congratulated on their systematic review of the published literature on the economic analysis of watch and wait. This represents a well-conducted systematic review that captures most of the relevant literature. The authors have performed comprehensive evaluation of the methodological quality of the included studies and their attempts to draw common themes from this heterogeneous body of literature is laudable.1
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Metadaten
Titel
Watch and Wait is Changing: We Need to Change How We Count Costs
verfasst von
Christopher Rao, FRCS(Gen), PhD
Arthur Sun Myint, FRCR
Publikationsdatum
02.09.2024
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in
Annals of Surgical Oncology / Ausgabe 12/2024
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Elektronische ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-024-16175-y

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