Some Interim Results from a Controlled Trial of Cost Sharing in Health Insurance

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 305, Issue 25, 1981, Pages 1501-1507

  Newhouse, Joseph P ^a   Manning, Willard G ^a   Morris, Carl N ^a   Orr, Larry L ^a   Duan, Naihua ^a   Keeler, Emmett B ^a   Leibowitz, Arleen ^a   Marquis, Kent H ^a   Marquis, M Susan ^a   Phelps, Charles E ^a   Brook, Robert H ^a  

^a United States Department of Labor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH INSURANCE; THERAPY;

EID: 0019837632     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198112173052504     Document Type: Article

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