Cost-effectiveness of initial diagnostic strategies for pulmonary nodules presenting to thoracic surgeons

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1214-1222

  Deppen, Stephen A ^a,b   Davis, William T ^a   Green, Elizabeth A ^b   Rickman, Otis ^b   Aldrich, Melinda C ^b   Fletcher, Sarah ^b   Putnam, Joseph B ^a,b   Grogan, Eric L ^a,b  

^a Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Health Care System   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NAVIGATION BRONCHOSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REIMBURSEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; THORAX SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WEDGE RESECTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ECONOMICS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; SURGEON;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; SURGEONS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908083119     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.05.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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