Cost analysis of management in acute appendicitis with CT scanning under a hospital global budgeting scheme

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 149-152

  Lin, K H ^a   Leung, W S ^a   Wang, C P ^a   Chen, W K ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BUDGETS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40449111933     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.050963     Document Type: Article

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