Balancing the benefits and harms of low-dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer: Medicare's options for coverage

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 445-446

  Wiener, Renda Soylemez ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENTALOMA; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LOW DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO; VETERANS HEALTH; AGED; ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; INSURANCE; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907209898     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1352     Document Type: Note

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