Socioeconomic costs of open surgery and gamma knife radiosurgery for benign cranial base tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 866-872

  Cho, Der Yang ^a   Tsao, Meilan ^b   Lee, Wen Yuan ^a   Chang, Cheng Siu ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Finance and Banking   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Benign cranial base tumors; Cost effectiveness analysis; Direct cost; Hospital stay; Indirect cost; Mortality; Quality adjusted life year; Socioeconomic cost; Workdays lost

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SKULL BASE TUMOR;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33646851902     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000209892.42585.9B     Document Type: Article

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