Cost-Effectiveness of Chest X-Ray Follow-Up of Patients Treated for Seminoma of the Testis: Cost-Effectiveness of Chest X-Ray Follow-Up of Patients Treated for Seminoma of the Testis:The authors report on a consecutive series of 253 cases of seminoma of the testis followed with periodic ...
Chest X-ray follow-up is not advisable beyond one year from primary treatment, since most (14 of 18) ITM occur in the first year, the detection rate of ITM beyond this date is too low (0.11% patients/year), and the related costs are too high (over $ 130,000 per ITM detected). ...
Various studies in primary care and hospitalized patients have discouraged routine use of chest x-ray (CXR) in medical examination. Purpose: The study aims to determine the prevalence of abnormal routine CXR and cost of one CXR at a public health clinic and discuss the rationale of CXR in rou...
Patients who qualified for urgent referral for chest X-ray under NICE, 2005 guidelines, or who had had a chest X-ray or CT scan of the chest in the last 3 months, or who needed a chest X-ray within next 3 weeks, or who had previously been diagnosed with cancer and who had a ...
Chest X-Ray (CXR) is a low-cost, widely available, practical screening technique in the diagnosis of multiple pulmonary diseases, like pneumonia, which is among the top infectious causes of death for children around the world1. Recently, CXRs have been massively used for detecting and monitoring...
The FIGO scoring system uses chest X-ray (CXR) as standard to assess pulmonary metastases. In UK practice, pulmonary metastases are evaluated on CXR, with computed tomography (CT) only performed if there is an uncertainty over the presence of lesions on CXR.5 As previously acknowledged by the...
them how much a PA and Lateral Chest X-ray would cost. “I don't know – we don't have that information” I was told by the clerk. The radiologist gave me the same answer. They both said I should just send the patient over and he would find out the cost when he received the ...
Tuberculosis screening in health service employees: who needs chest X-rays? There is uncertainty in the NHS about which individuals should be offered pre-employment screening by chest X-ray and whether this procedure is of value in... N Chaturvedi,A Cockcroft - 《Occup Med》 被引量: 66发表...
Worldwide, pneumonia is the leading cause of infant mortality. Experienced radiologists use chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. The diagnostic procedure's complexity causes radiologists to disagree with the decision. Early
FULL PAPER British Journal of Cancer (2017) 116, 293–302 | doi: 10.1038/bjc.2016.414 Keywords: lung cancer; early diagnosis; health economics; chest X-ray; NICE; RCT; symptoms; cough Immediate chest X-ray for patients at risk of lung cancer presenting in primary care: randomised controlled...