Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on November 11, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(22):1654-1655; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn369
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Affiliations of authors: Department of Medicine, Center for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (JDG-F); Department of Health Policy and Management, Program in Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (SG)
Correspondence to: Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD, Department of Medicine, Center for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305 (e-mail: jeremygf@stanford.edu).
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Our recently published decision-analytic study (1) that compared alternative cervical cancer prevention strategies was intended to provide policy makers with estimates of long-term impacts needed for near-term decision making. Although it used the best data available at the time, a necessary part of a model-based approach is the iterative reassessment of internal consistency and face validity.
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