Economic evaluation of the introduction of the Prostate Health Index as a rule-out test to avoid unnecessary biopsies in men with prostate specific antigen levels of 4-10 in Hong Kong

Janet Bouttell; Jeremy Teoh; Peter K. Chiu; Kevin S. Chan; Chi-Fai Ng; Robert Heggie; Neil Hawkins

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215279

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Economic evaluation of the introduction of the Prostate Health Index as a rule-out test to avoid unnecessary biopsies in men with prostate specific antigen levels of 4-10 in Hong Kong

Janet Bouttell ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: Janet.Bouttell@glasgow.ac.uk (JB); jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk (JT)

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4568-5483

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Jeremy Teoh ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Janet.Bouttell@glasgow.ac.uk (JB); jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk (JT)

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Peter K. Chiu,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Kevin S. Chan,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Chi-Fai Ng,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Robert Heggie,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7396-4773

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Neil Hawkins

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Economic evaluation of the introduction of the Prostate Health Index as a rule-out test to avoid unnecessary biopsies in men with prostate specific antigen levels of 4-10 in Hong Kong

Janet Bouttell,
Jeremy Teoh,
Peter K. Chiu,
Kevin S. Chan,
Chi-Fai Ng,
Robert Heggie,
Neil Hawkins

Published: April 16, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215279

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