The cost of diagnosis: A comparison of four different strategies in the workup of solitary radiographic lung lesions

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Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 870-876

  Goldberg Kahn, Becki ^a   Healy, James C ^a   Bishop, John W ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

decision support techniques; lung neoplasms; sensitivity and specificity; sputum cytology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030942186     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.4.870     Document Type: Article

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