Would scan, but which scan? A cost-utility analysis to optimize preoperative imaging for primary hyperparathyroidism

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1286-1294

  Wang, Tracy S ^a   Cheung, Kevin ^b   Farrokhyar, Forough ^b   Roman, Sanziana A ^c   Sosa, Julie A ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; IMAGE QUALITY; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82755195137     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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