Analysis models to assess cost effectiveness of the four strategies for the work-up of solitary pulmonary nodules

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Tsushima, Yoshito ^a   Endo, Keigo ^b  

^a Motojima General Hospital   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; CT guided needle biopsy; Decision tree analysis; FDG PET; Lung cancer; Screening 8 CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SODIUM IODIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2942746546     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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