Cost-effectiveness of Confirmatory Testing Before Treatment of Onychomycosis
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Cost-effectiveness of Confirmatory Testing Before Treatment of Onychomycosis.
IMPORTANCE Onychomycosis is the most common disease of the nail in adults. International guidelines urge health care professionals to perform confirmatory diagnostic testing before initiating systemic therapy. This approach was determined to be cost-effective in studies from the late 1990s but has not been evaluated more recently. The effect of testing on the costs of efinaconazole, 10%, topica...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Dermatology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2168-6068
DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2015.4190