Screening for Cancer: Advice for High-Value Care

"Higher-intensity strategies are not necessarily higher value. High-value strategies provide a degree of benefits that clearly justifies the harms and costs incurred; low-value screening provides limited or no benefits to justify the harms and costs. When cancer screening leads to benefits, an optimal intensity of screening maximizes value. Some aspects of screening practices, especially overuse and underuse, are low value."

Screening for Cancer: Advice for High-Value Care From the American College of Physicians
TJ Wilt, RP Harris, A Qaseem
Annals of Internal Medicine. 2015;162(10):718-725. doi:10.7326/M14-2326

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Resource modelling to inform decision making and service planning

"Resource modelling of this type complements conventional cost-effectiveness analyses and can help inform policy making and service planning."

Using resource modelling to inform decision making and service planning: the case of colorectal cancer screening in Ireland
L Sharp, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:105

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