Impact of imaging diagnostics on the budget - Are we spending too much?;Uticaj imaging dijagnostike na budžet - Da li previše trošimo?

Vojnosanitetski Pregled

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 709-711

  Ranković, Ana ^a   Rančić, Nemanja ^b   Jovanović, Mirjana ^a   Ivanović, Miloš ^c   Gajović, Olgica ^a   Lazić, Zorica ^d   Jakovljević, Mihajlo ^c  

^a University Clinical Center Kragujevac   (Serbia)

^b University of Defence ^*  (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^d CLINICAL CENTER KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; APPENDICITIS; BONE DENSITOMETRY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LETTER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SERBIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; X RAY;

BUDGETS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS;

EID: 84879614134     PISSN: 00428450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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