Many activities of doctors in the acute hospital sector do not improve patient outcome because they are inappropriate. Curtailing interventions that are unnecessary (because the patient is not bad enough) or are unsuccessful (because the condition is too advanced) could both save resources and impro
The cost containment—Quality of care issue
✍ Scribed by Gwynn X. Lamont
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 402 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-5598
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