Cost-effectiveness in diagnosis of patients with long-standing fever

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 153, Issue 9-10, 2003, Pages 202-207

  Wolf, Harald ^a   Graninger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Diagnosis; Fever; FUO

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHRONICITY; COLLAGEN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE COST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MODEL; NEOPLASM; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0038521267     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1563-258X.2003.02112.x     Document Type: Article

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