Economics of stone management

EAU Update Series

Volumn 3, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 51-60

  Lotan, Yair ^a   Pearle, Margaret S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Cost effectiveness; Decision tree model

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CITRATE POTASSIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LITHOTOMY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT; REVIEW; STONE FORMATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPY; UROLITHIASIS; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

EID: 14544305476     PISSN: 15709124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euus.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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