Screening for mild hypertension: costs and benefits.

Screening for mild hypertension: costs and benefits.

It is important to understand the full implications of introducing a new screening and treatment programme into the National Health Service. In this paper, we calculate, for mild hypertension, the cost of community-based screening and the cost of case-finding in general practice. We show that case-finding in general practice is both less expensive and more efficient. We calculate the cost of ru...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Costs and benefits of preemployment drug screening.

OBJECTIVE This study provides a cost-benefit analysis of preemployment drug screening and evaluates the sensitivity of this analysis to variation in its underlying assumptions. DESIGN Cost-benefit analysis, based on a cohort analytic study previously reported. SETTING Employees of the US Postal Service in Boston, Mass. PARTICIPANTS Estimates of costs and benefit are based on a cohort of 2...

Admission after mild head injury: benefits and costs.

Large numbers of patients are admitted to hospital in Britain after mild head injury in the hope of anticipating complications. Investigation of 1442 consecutive admissions with head injury to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary yielded 56 intracranial haematomas. Of 865 patients who were alert and orientated in the accident and emergency department after having been briefly knocked out but who had n...

CT screening: a trade-off of risks, benefits, and costs.