Economic Value of Bronchoscopy Technologies that Improves Sensitivity for Malignancy for Peripheral Pulmonary Lesions.
David E OstFabien MaldonadoJason ShafrinJaehong KimMoises A MarinTony B AmosDeanna S HertzIftekhar KalsekarAnil VachaniPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2024)
Increasing sensitivity of malignancy by 10 percentage points resulted in a $8,729 improvement in net economic value. Health systems can use this information when making decisions regarding the value of new bronchoscopy technologies. This article is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License 4.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ).