Preventing the birth of infants with Down's syndrome: a cost-benefit analysis.
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The costs and economical benefits of providing routine prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome with termination of affected pregnancies in older pregnant women in the west of Scotland were examined. The potential economic benefits would be greater than the costs for women aged 40 and over, probably about equal to costs for those aged 35 and over, but less than costs if the service were extended to women under 35.
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uneventful pregnancies giving rise to unaffected children had the screening programme been offered to them: a tricky concept. (It is not easy to see how that estimate of cost is obtained from their abbreviated table III.) The cost of permanent care of people born with Down's syndrome relative to that of an assumed normal birth cohort is so low partly because the estimated cost of permanent care...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 1 6012 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976