Cost-effectiveness of preoperative positron emission tomography in ischemic heart disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1403-1409

  Jacklin, Paul B ^a,b   Barrington, Sally F ^a   Roxburgh, James C ^a   Jackson, Graham ^a   Sariklis, Dimitrios ^a   West, Peter A ^a   Maisey, Michael N ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MODEL; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LONDON; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PATIENT SELECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036260149     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03459-8     Document Type: Article

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