Acute appendicitis in young children cost-effectiveness of US versus CT in diagnosis - A Markov decision analyic model

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 378-386

  Wan, Michael J ^a   Krahn, Murray ^b   Unaar, Wendv J ^a   Çaku, Edona ^a   Sung, Lillian ^a   Mediiy, L Santiago ^c   Doria, Andreas S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG ACTIVITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION HAZARD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; APPENDICITIS; CANCER REGISTRY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; ECONOMICS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

APPENDICITIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PREVALENCE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SEER PROGRAM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61749103878     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2502080100     Document Type: Article

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