Men's willingness to pay for prostate cancer screening: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to review studies on willingness to pay (WTP) for prostate cancer screening.

Methods

This systematic-review was conducted based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews guidelines. By searching six-health-database, WTP studies on prostate cancer screening using contingent valuation method published in English until March 2020 were included and those with unavailable full-text and inadequate quality-assessment scores were excluded. Smith checklist was used for the quality assessment. Extracted WTPs were converted to US dollar in 2018 using exchange rate parity and net present value formula to make comparison. Factors' effect was assessed by vote counting.

Results

Six final studies published after 2006 reported above 70% Smith

SUBMITTER: Farabi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7727201 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature