The Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Helicobacter Pylori Screening to the National Gastric Cancer Screening Program in Korea: Protocol for a Cost-Effectiveness Modeling Study

Seowoo Bae   ^{1 *} , MA ;   Joon Sung Kim   ^{2 *} , MD, PhD ;   Moon Won Lee   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Gwang Ha Kim   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Young-Il Kim   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Woon Tae Jung   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Gwang Ho Baik   ⁶ , MD ;   Beom Jin Kim   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Joongyub Lee   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Mina Suh   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Jae Gyu Kim   ⁷ , MD, PhD

¹ National Cancer Control Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Republic of Korea

² Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

³ Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea

⁴ Center for Gastric Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Republic of Korea

⁵ Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Medical Science, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University and Hospital, Jinju, Republic of Korea

⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea

⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁸ Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally