Cost-benefit of minimally invasive staging of non-small cell lung cancer: A decision tree sensitivity analysis

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1564-1570

  Steinfort, Daniel P ^a,b   Liew, Danny ^b   Conron, Matthew ^c   Hutchinson, Anastasia F ^b   Irving, Louis B ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost and cost analysis; Endobronchial ultrasound; Mediastinal lymph node; Non small cell lung cancer; Transbronchial needle aspiration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

EID: 77958191380     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181e8b2e6     Document Type: Article

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