Refining Lung Cancer Screening Criteria in the Era of Value-Based Medicine

Steven D. Shapiro

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002226

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Refining Lung Cancer Screening Criteria in the Era of Value-Based Medicine

Steven D. Shapiro

* E-mail: shapirosd@upmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7137-1322

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Refining Lung Cancer Screening Criteria in the Era of Value-Based Medicine

Steven D. Shapiro

Published: February 7, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002226

About the Authors

Steven D. Shapiro

* E-mail: shapirosd@upmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7137-1322

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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