Budget Impact Analysis of Switching to Digital Mammography in a Population-Based Breast Cancer Screening Program: A Discrete Event Simulation Model

Mercè Comas; Arantzazu Arrospide; Javier Mar; Maria Sala; Ester Vilaprinyó; Cristina Hernández; Francesc Cots; Juan Martínez; Xavier Castells

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097459

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Budget Impact Analysis of Switching to Digital Mammography in a Population-Based Breast Cancer Screening Program: A Discrete Event Simulation Model

Mercè Comas ,

* E-mail: mcomas@parcdesalutmar.cat

Affiliations Epidemiology and Evaluation Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Valencia, Spain
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Arantzazu Arrospide,

Affiliations Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Valencia, Spain, Gipuzkoa Oeste Research Unit, Hospital Alto Deba, Arrasate, Spain
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Javier Mar,

Affiliations Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Valencia, Spain, Gipuzkoa Oeste Research Unit, Hospital Alto Deba, Arrasate, Spain
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Maria Sala,

Affiliations Epidemiology and Evaluation Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Valencia, Spain
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Ester Vilaprinyó,

Affiliations Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Valencia, Spain, Basic Medical Sciences Department, Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLLEIDA)-University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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Cristina Hernández,

Affiliation Epidemiology and Evaluation Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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Francesc Cots,

Affiliations Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Valencia, Spain, Management Control Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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Juan Martínez,

Affiliation Radiology Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
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Xavier Castells

Affiliations Epidemiology and Evaluation Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona; IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Valencia, Spain
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Budget Impact Analysis of Switching to Digital Mammography in a Population-Based Breast Cancer Screening Program: A Discrete Event Simulation Model

Mercè Comas,
Arantzazu Arrospide,
Javier Mar,
Maria Sala,
Ester Vilaprinyó,
Cristina Hernández,
Francesc Cots,
Juan Martínez,
Xavier Castells

Published: May 15, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097459

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