Evaluation économique de la campagne de dépistage de l'ostéoporose menée en Province de Liège avec le concours de Liège Province Santé ; Economic evaluation of osteoporosis screening strategy conducted in the Province of Liège with the cooperation of Liège Province Santé

peer reviewed ; The Province of Liege has conducted an osteoporosis screening strategy for women aged 50 to 69 years. The objective of this study is to investigate the economic characteristics of the screening strategy and to assess its cost-effectiveness, using a Markov microsimulation model. Our analyses suggest that the osteoporosis screening strategy is efficient if the medical community and the patients fulfill the recommendations of the Province of Liege health authorities and if persistence is optimized. Therefore, bone mineral density (BMD) measurement should be performed in all indivi... Mehr ...