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Eccleston, J & Street, D 1990, 'Construction Methods For Adjusted Orthogonal Row-column Designs', Ars Combinatoria, vol. 29, pp. 117-128.
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Gerard, K, Salkeld, G & Hall, J 1990, 'Counting the costs of mammography screening: first year results from the Sydney study', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 152, no. 9, pp. 466-471.
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Population-based mammography screening is a highly specialized service which aims to improve the early detection of breast cancer. This is achieved through the installation of a dedicated mix of medical technology and professional skills. It is therefore a resource-intensive activity so the benefits foregone by deploying these resources for mammography screening ought to be determined to investigate the relative efficiency of such a commitment. This paper describes the costing methodology used in the evaluation of the Sydney Breast X-ray Programme and presents the health service costs for the first 12 months of operation. In the first year when attendance was under 5000 it cost $118.93 to screen a woman, $13,817 to detect a cancer and $18,720 to detect an impalpable cancer. However, costs are expected to fall in subsequent years as attendance reaches capacity level. The first screening round will detect prevalent cancers; costs will change with subsequent screening rounds as incident cancers are detected. We are cautious in extrapolating the costs of a national programme from these results. However, on the basis of our data and disregarding treatment costs, a national programme which screened 70% of all Australian women over the age of 45 years every two years would add between $60 million and $100 million to the national health bill each year.

Gerard, K, Salkeld, G & Hall, J 1990, 'Counting the costs of mammography screening: first year results from the Sydney study', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 175-176.
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Gerard, K, Salkeld, G & Hall, J 1990, 'Counting the costs of mammography screening: first year results from the Sydney study', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 175-175.
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Hall, J 1990, 'What every doctor should know about economics', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 152, no. 7, pp. 388-388.
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Hall, J & Mooney, G 1990, 'What every doctor should know about economics Part 1. The benefits of costing', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 152, no. 1, pp. 29-31.
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Hall, J & Mooney, G 1990, 'What every doctor should know about economics: Part 2. The benefits of economic appraisal', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 152, no. 2, pp. 80-82.
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Street, DJ 1990, 'Fisher's Contributions to Agricultural Statistics', Biometrics, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 937-937.
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Fisher had an immense impact on the practice of biometrics, particularly in agriculture. In this paper an attempt is made to describe the innovations in which he played a part and which have had the most effect on the practice of biometrics.