Lung Cancer Screening With Low-Dose CT in the United States

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1395-1402

  Eberth, Jan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

early detection of cancer; health insurance reimbursement; low dose CT; Lung cancer; spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CERTIFICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; REIMBURSEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; UTILIZATION;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84983489007     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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