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Colorectal cancer screening policy in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2009

Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea  and
José Asua
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Nursing University School Vitoria-Gasteiz, José Atxotegi z.g, 01009 Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country), Spain, Health Technology Assessment Technician, Osteba-Basque Office for HTA, Department of Health–Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, 1, 01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country), Spain (osteba7-san@ej-gv.es)
José Asua
Affiliation:
Head, Osteba-Basque Office for HTA, Department of Health–Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, 1, 01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country), Spain (jasua-osteba@ej-gv.es)
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We agreed with Gulácsi et al. on their perception about our article that did not include those eastern European countries that have recently joined the European Union. It does not mean that we tried to provide partial information or that we wanted to diminish the information with other purposes. In fact, the title of our article when it was sent to be published was: “Screening for colon-rectal cancer in the Europe of fifteen, Norway and Switzerland. So equal, so different. Is it time for a common approach?” and so was the title of the oral communication presented in the Annual Meeting of HTAi held in Montreal last summer (7). Even when we believed that this title was more accurate to the data provided in the article, we finally followed the suggestions of the reviewers to make the title short and comprehensive.

Type
Commentaries, Views, and Developments in Hta
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 111 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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