Reimbursement for chest-pain CT: Estimates based on current imaging strategies

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 237-242

  Otero, Hansel J ^a,b   Rybicki, Frank J ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CHEST PAIN; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846816911     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-006-0529-1     Document Type: Article

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