Is amalgam removal in patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms cost-effective? A prospective cohort and decision modelling study in Norway

• Admassu N. Lamu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kanaroba2.12@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Section for Ethics and Health Economics, Department of Global Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6638-421X

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• Lars Björkman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dental Biomaterials Adverse Reaction Unit, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bergen, Norway, Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3663-530X

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• Harald J. Hamre,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

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• Terje Alræk,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NAFKAM, Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Frauke Musial,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NAFKAM, Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Bjarne Robberstad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section for Ethics and Health Economics, Department of Global Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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