Does robotic technology make minimally invasive cardiac surgery too expensive? A hospital cost analysis of robotic and conventional techniques

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 246-251

  Morgan, Jeffrey A ^a   Thornton, Barbara A ^a   Peacock, Joy C ^a   Hollingsworth, Karen W ^a   Smith, Craig R ^a   Oz, Mehmet C ^a   Argenziano, Michael ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPITAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INVESTMENT; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST SAVINGS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18744385512     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.200385.x     Document Type: Article

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