Optimizing choledocholithiasis management: A cost-effectiveness analysis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-48

  Poulose, Benjamin K ^a   Speroff, Ted ^b   Holzman, Michael D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 33846227817     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.1.43     Document Type: Article

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