Diagnostic evaluation in patients with intractable epilepsy and normal findings on MRI: A decision analysis and cost-effectiveness study

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1004-1009

  Widjaja, Elysa ^a   Li, B ^b   Santiago Medina, L ^c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LONG TERM CARE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84878481154     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3474     Document Type: Article

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