Economic impact of extracolonic findings at computed tomographic colonography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-503

  Dachman, Abraham H ^a   Flicker, Michael S ^a   Tsoukas, Alexander T ^b   Hazra, Anup ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Computed tomography; CT colonography; Screening

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

ADDITIONAL COSTS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT COLONOGRAPHY; DATA SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; ELECTRONIC INFORMATION; PATIENT DATA; REPORTING SYSTEMS; SYSTEM CLASSIFICATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BONE TUMOR; CALCIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISKITIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMPHYSEMA; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; GRANULOMA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HIATUS HERNIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INGUINAL HERNIA; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY INJURY; LIPOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRANULOMA; LIVER INJURY; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OVARY CYST; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PATIENT CODING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SCREENING; SOLID TUMOR; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ALCOHOLIC PANCREATITIS; COLON TUMOR; ECONOMICS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OVARIAN CYSTS; PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 49949118048     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181692091     Document Type: Article

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