Hospital costs, cancer patients, and sur
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Eric MuΓ±oz; Donald Chalfin; Harris Sterman; Jonathan Goldstein; Irving Margolis;
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This study of 4,359 Medicare patients in 107 noncancer stratified surgical Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) tested the hypothesis that patients with a diagnosis of a malignancy (i.e., cancer) in these DRGs would have higher resource utilization than patients without a diagnosis of a malignancy (i.e.