The influence of new devices on the costs of interventional procedures

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1199-1208

  Weintraub, William S ^a,b   Waksman, Ron ^a   Benard, Jim ^a   Becker, Edmund R ^a   Mauldin, Patrick D ^a   Ghazzal, Ziyad M B ^a   Douglas, John S ^a   King III, Spencer B ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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