Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of endobronchial and endoscopic ultrasound relative to surgical staging in potentially resectable lung cancer: Results from the ASTER randomised controlled trial

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1-81

  Sharples, L D ^a   Jackson, C ^a   Wheaton, E ^a   Griffith, G ^b   Annema, J T ^c   Dooms, C ^d   Tournoy, K G ^e   Deschepper, E ^e   Hughes, V ^f   Magee, L ^f   Buxton, M ^b   Rintoul, R C ^f  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

AGED; BRONCHI; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84862989411     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: 20464924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta16180     Document Type: Article

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