The health and economic impact of implementation strategies for improving detection of hereditary cancer patients—protocol for an in-depth cost-effectiveness evaluation with microsimulation modelling

Abstract Background Patients with Lynch syndrome (an inherited cancer predisposition syndrome) remain largely underdiagnosed despite clinically and cost-effective testing strategies to detect patients. This is largely due to poor referral rates for high-risk patients for consideration of genetic tes...

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Main Authors: April Morrow, Bonny Parkinson, Yoon-Jung Kang, Emily Hogden, Karen Canfell, Natalie Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:Implementation Science Communications
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-020-00058-w