Cost Effectiveness of Lead Screening

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Abstract
Lead-screening programs may reduce childhood disabilities, but at what cost? Through a review of the literature, we performed a cost-effectiveness analysis in which the costs, savings, and health benefits of two lead-screening strategies — employing either a free erythrocyte protoporphyrin assay or blood lead measurement — were compared with each other and with a strategy of no screening in a population of three-year-old children.