Which BPH treatment is the most clinically efficacious and cost-effective?: Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 358-359

  Fitzpatrick, John ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOLMIUM LASER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER COAGULATION; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSURETHRAL ELECTROVAPORIZATION; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TRANSURETHRAL NEEDLE ABLATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROFLOWMETRY;

EID: 34548164061     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0806     Document Type: Short Survey

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