Costs and effectiveness of a brief MRI examination of patients with acute knee injury

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 409-418

  Oei, Edwin H G ^a   Nikken, Jeroen J ^a,b   Ginai, Abida Z ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Verhaar, Jan A N ^a   Vugt, Arie B ^a,c   Hunink, M G Myriam ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Knee; Magnetic resonance imaging; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE INJURY; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 59249091244     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1162-z     Document Type: Article

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