Small bowel endoscopy: Cost-effectiveness of the different approaches

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 325-335

  Gerson, Lauren B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Cost effectiveness analysis; Deep enteroscopy; Health related quality of life; Obscure gastrointestinal haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VIDEOENDOSCOPY;

EID: 84862521817     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: 15321916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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