Estimating Cost-Effectiveness of Confirmatory Oral Food Challenges in the Diagnosis of Children With Food Allergy

• Hoofdauteurs: Abdullah Alsaggaf MD (Auteur), James Murphy MD (Auteur), Sydney Leibel MD, MPH (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: SAGE Publishing, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction . Food allergies affect 8% of the pediatric population in the United States with an estimated annual cost of US$25 billion. The low specificity of some of the main food allergy tests used in diagnosis may generate false positives incurring unnecessary costs. We examined the cost-effecti...