Delayed otolaryngology referral for voice disorders increases health care costs

Keyphrases

• Health Care Costs 100%
• Otolaryngology 100%
• Voice Disorders 100%
• Primary Care 50%
• Outpatient Visits 50%
• Otolaryngologist 50%
• Confidence Interval 33%
• Primary Care Physicians 33%
• Follow-up Data 33%
• Outpatient Care 33%
• Patient Management 16%
• Cost Increase 16%
• Patient Assessment 16%
• Healthcare Expenditure 16%
• Retrospective Analysis 16%
• Mean Cost 16%
• International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision 16%
• Laryngoscopy 16%
• Primary Care Visits 16%
• Administrative Claims Database 16%
• Generalized Linear Regression Model 16%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Health Care Cost 100%
• Patient Referral 100%
• Outpatient 100%
• Otorhinolaryngology 100%
• Voice Disorder 100%
• Primary Health Care 85%
• Voice 71%
• Linear Regression Analysis 14%
• ICD-9 14%
• Health Care 14%
• Laryngoscopy 14%