Effect of symptom-based risk stratification on the costs of managing patients with chronic rhinosinusitis symptoms

International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 933-940

  Tan, Bruce K ^a   Lu, Guanning ^a   Kwasny, Mary J ^a   Hsueh, Wayne D ^b   Shintani Smith, Stephanie ^a   Conley, David B ^a   Chandra, Rakesh K ^a   Kern, Robert C ^a   Leung, Randy ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Royal Victoria Hospital Barrie   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic rhinosinusitis; Cost minimization; Decision making; Diagnosis; Sinusitis; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CLARITHROMYCIN; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; LEVOFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION TREE; DIZZINESS; ENDOSCOPY; EPICANTHUS; FACE PAIN; FOREHEAD; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; JAW PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRAINE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHOTOPHOBIA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENSION HEADACHE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; COST MINIMIZATION; DECISION-MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; SINUSITIS; SYMPTOMS;

ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; RHINITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84888031098     PISSN: 20426976     EISSN: 20426984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/alr.21208     Document Type: Article

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