## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Costs associated with the provision of medical care continue to escalate. Therefore, providers must evaluate the costβeffectiveness and benefit to individual healthcare practices. The authors evaluated the immediate and shortβterm resource utilization needs of patients un
Effect of provider volume on resource utilization for surgical procedures of the knee
β Scribed by Nitin Jain; Ricardo Pietrobon; Ulrich Guller; Anoop Shankar; Ajit S. Ahluwalia; Laurence D. Higgins
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 300 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0942-2056
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