CAT scanners: the Swedish experience.
Today, managers are being asked to analyze and justify the costs for new and expensive equipment. In the case of the CAT Scanner, however, there has been little "hard" information available. To fill the gap, the authors present the findings of several Swedish studies that compare the uses and the costs of the CAT Scanner with other diagnostic techniques.
D002533:Cerebral Angiography / Q000191:economics; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D011011:Pneumoencephalography / Q000191:economics; D013222:State Medicine; D013548:Sweden; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D013675:Technology, High-Cost; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data