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Costs and Benefits of Performing Health Service Evaluations
Well-designed evaluations of health services are frequently performed; however, the extent to which the benefits of these evaluations justify their costs is not well documented. Soderstrom et al. (p. 1118) calculated the benefits and costs of one such evaluation, the Quebec Neuroblastoma Screening Project (QNSP), which screened Quebec newborns between 1989 and 1994 for neuroblastoma. This screening did not reduce neuroblastoma mortality and caused adverse health effects. Had the QNSP not been undertaken, Soderstrom et al. argue that screening would have been used across North America between 1989 and 2002. By preventing this,
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