Economical and clinical outcomes of alternative treatment strategies in the management of common bile duct stones in the elderly: Wait and see or surgery?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 746-752

  Drake, Britt B ^a   Arguedas, Miguel R ^a,d   Kilgore, Meredith L ^b   Hawn, Mary T ^c   Wilcox, C Mel ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Kentucky   (United States)

^d UAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY WITH SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REIMBURSEMENT; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC;

EID: 33645460416     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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