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An exploratory assessment of the impact of a novel risk assessment test on breast cancer clinic waiting times and workflow: a discrete event simulation model

2022-06-16

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<h4>Background</h4> Breast cancer clinics across the UK have long been struggling to cope with high demand. Novel risk prediction tools – such as the PinPoint test – could help to reduce unnecessary clinic referrals. Using early data on the expected accuracy of the test, we explore the potential impact of PinPoint on: (a) the percentage of patients meeting the two-week referral target, and (b) the number of clinic...

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Literature Corpus work: e4cac6ed-4fe2-5a27-aff9-74f6022aa4eb
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.13.22276333

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