Therapeutic Decision Making: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 293, Issue 5, 1975, Pages 229-234

  Pauker, Stephen G ^a   Kassirer, Jerome P ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; MEDICAL CARE; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0016757157     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197507312930505     Document Type: Article

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