In Brief: Cost-effectiveness Analyses in Orthopaedics
β Scribed by Patrick Vavken; Thomas Bianchi
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Volume
- 469
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-921X
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