Economic analysis including long-term risks and costs of alternative diagnostic strategies to evaluate patients with chest pain

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bedetti, Gigliola ^a   Pasanisi, Emilio Maria ^b   Pizzi, Carmine ^c   Turchetti, Giuseppe ^d   Loré, Cosimo ^e  

^a S Maria della Scaletta Hospital   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERUM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; ITALY; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 47349091599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-6-21     Document Type: Article

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