Cost analysis of video-assisted thoracic surgery versus thoracotomy: Critical review

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 735-738

  Van Schil, Paul ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cost; Evidence based medicine; Review; Thoracoscopy; Thoracotomy; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; LUNG VOLUME; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATING ROOM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY;

BIOPSY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0242635888     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.03.00057503     Document Type: Review

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