Evidence-based imaging and cost-effectiveness analysis in cardiopulmonary imaging.
Evidence-based imaging is a paradigm for using the best evidence to guide medical decision making. Evidence-based imaging centers on formulating a clinical question focused on a specific patient scenario, conducting a literature search and critical review, summarizing the evidence, and using the information to guide medical decision making. Additional tools important to evidence-based imaging are clinical prediction rules, designed to provide evidence for when imaging should be used, and cost-effectiveness analysis, designed to quantify the economic and patient outcomes from medical interventions.
Center for Health Services Research and Department of Radiology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98111, USA. craig.Blackmore@vmmc.org
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D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics; D011859:Radiography; D011871:Radiology / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D016896:Treatment Outcome