A cost-minimization analysis of alternative strategies in diagnosing pancreatic cancer

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2223-2234

  Chen, Victor K ^a   Arguedas, Miguel R ^a   Kilgore, Meredith L ^a   Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILE DUCT STENT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS MODEL; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAUNDICE, OBSTRUCTIVE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 8744284555     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.40042.x     Document Type: Article

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