Costs of prenatal detection of congenital heart disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1808-1814

  Jegatheeswaran, Anusha ^a,b   Oliveira, Carol ^a,b   Batsos, Constantine ^a   Moon Grady, Anita J ^c   Silverman, Norman H ^d   Hornberger, Lisa K ^e   Coyte, Peter ^a,f   Friedberg, Mark K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; UNITED STATES;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EMERGENCIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 82555190956     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2011.07.052     Document Type: Article

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