Additional cost benefits of chest physician-operated thoracic ultrasound (TUS) prior to medical thoracoscopy (MT)

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1077-1078

  Medford, A R L ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG ASPIRATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 77952881443     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.03.004     Document Type: Letter

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