Cost-effectiveness of treating ureteral stones in a taipei city hospital: Shock wave lithotripsy versus ureteroscopy plus lithoclast

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 410-415

  Huang, Chi Yi ^a,b   Chen, Shiou Sheng ^a,c   Chen, Li Kuei ^d  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Shu Tien Urological Research Center   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy; Ureteral stone; Ureteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STONE ANALYSIS; STONE DISSOLUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY;

EID: 72049088238     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000251180     Document Type: Article

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