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Cost accounting in cost utility analysis of screening and treatment
  1. Giedrius Vanagas
  1. Correspondence to: Giedrius Vanagas Kaunas University of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Eiveniu 4, Kaunas 50009, Lithuania; vanagaskmu.lt

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I would like to make some comments regarding the cost utility analysis in the paper by Hopley et al1 because it is important to understand that the costs should be accounted at the same time and with the same degree of accuracy as outcome data. The economic definition of costs should be used in cost valuation, not the financial definition.2–5 The concept implies that all resources consumed …

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