Colorectal neoplasia screening with virtual colonoscopy: When, at what cost, and with what national impact?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 554-563

  Ladabaum, Uri ^a,b   Song, Kenneth ^b   Fendrick, A Mark ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

COLO; colonoscopic screening; colorectal cancer; CPT; CRC; Current Procedural terminology; QALY; quality adjusted life year; VC; VC base; virtual colonoscopy base case; virtual colonoscopy screening

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042579453     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-3565(04)00247-2     Document Type: Article

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