Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access published online on October 27, 2009
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, doi:10.1093/jnci/djp372
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Re: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in the Netherlands
Affiliations of authors: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (VMHC, JB) and Department of Pathology (CJLMM), VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Correspondence to: Veerle M. H. Coupé, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Centre, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, the Netherlands (e-mail: v.coupe@vumc.nl).
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de Kok et al. (1) recently reported the cost-effectiveness of human papillomavirus vaccination in the Netherlands and argued that human papillomavirus vaccination is not a cost-effective preventive measure in the Netherlands. They calculated a discounted (annual rate 3%) incremental cost-effectiveness