| Literature DB >> 25455883 |
Oke Gerke1, Ronnie Hermansson2, Søren Hess3, Søren Schifter4, Werner Vach5, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen4.
Abstract
The development of clinical diagnostic procedures comprises early-phase and late-phase studies to elucidate diagnostic accuracy and patient outcome. Economic assessments of new diagnostic procedures compared with established work-ups indicate additional cost for 1 additional unit of effectiveness measure by means of incremental cost-effectiveness ratios when considering the replacement of the standard regimen by a new diagnostic procedure. This article discusses economic assessments of PET and PET/computed tomography reported until mid-July 2014. Forty-seven studies on cancer and noncancer indications were identified but, because of the widely varying scope of the analyses, a substantial amount of work remains to be done.Entities:
Keywords: Computed tomography; Cost-benefit analysis; Cost-effectiveness; Economics; PET
Mesh:
Substances:
Year: 2014 PMID: 25455883 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpet.2014.09.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PET Clin ISSN: 1556-8598