An economic evaluation of sonographic examination of children with suspected appendicitis

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1236-1241

  Axelrod, David A ^a   Sonnad, Seema S ^a   Hirschl, Ronald B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Economic analysis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; ECHOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033883552     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jpsu.2000.8761     Document Type: Article

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