Transthoracic echocardiography is not cost-effective in critically ill surgical patients

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 280-284

  Cook, Charles H ^a   Praba, Anant C ^a   Beery, Paul R ^a   Martin, Larry C ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effective; Critical care; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036189335     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200202000-00013     Document Type: Article

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