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Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening attendance: Effect of removing the examination fee
Anneli Linné1,2, Rebecka Hultgren3,4, Daniel Öhman5
11 Department of Surgery, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
Objectives:
The organized population-based screening programme for abdominal aortic aneurysm in Stockholm, Sweden, started in 2010. An examination fee was initially charged, but later removed because of a policy change. We examined the effect on screening attendance of removing the fee.
Methods:
The periods before and after removing the examination fee were compared with regard to screening attendance, overall, by municipality and by district.
Results:
Screening attendance was 79.2% in the period with an examination fee and 79.9% in the period without an examination fee (p = 0.1787), with no significant change in screening attendance between the periods.
Conclusions:
Although removing examination fees has been shown to have a positive impact on attendance in other screening programmes, we did not find this association in our study.
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