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Screening and treatment for eye disease in all type 2 diabetes patients would result in an estimated net savings of over $472.1 million-- in 1994 dollars.
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Javitt, Jonathan C., Lloyd Paul Aiello, Yen-Pin Chiang, and S. Greenfield. "Preventive Eye Care in People With Diabetes is Cost-Saving to the Federal Government: Implications for health care reform". Diabetes Care. Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 909-17. [ Permalink ]