Table 3.
Difference in costs: DBT to DM (Euro (€), 95% CI) | ||||
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Empirical results | 50% reduction in storage and connectivity costs | 30% reduction in additional price of tomo-equipped mammograph | No additional examination time, 20% reduction in total reading time DBT | |
Incremental screening costs | €8.5 (8.4 to 8.6) | €6.4 (6.3 to 6.5) | €8.1 (8.0 to 8.2) | €6.1 (6.0 to 6.2) |
Adding recall costs | €6.2 (4.6 to 7.9) | €4.1 (2.4 to 5.8) | €5.8 (4.1 to 7.5) | €3.8 (2.1 to 5.5) |
Adding treatment costs | €9.8 (–56 to 74) | €7.8 (–60 to 74) | €9.4 (–59 to 73) | €7.5 (–60 to 74) |
Removing 30 patients with costs > €40,000 | €26.3 (–17 to 70) | €24.3 (–18 to 67) | €25.9 (–17 to 69) | €24.0 (–20 to 67) |
DBT digital breast tomosynthesis and synthetic mammography; DM digital mammography; 95% CI 95% bootstrap percentile confidence interval