Cost-effectiveness analysis of management strategies for obscure GI bleeding

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 920-936

  Gerson, Lauren ^a   Kamal, Ahmad ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTRAOPERATIVE ENTEROSCOPY; MONEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54449090593     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.01.035     Document Type: Article

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