Resource-Based Relative Values: An Overview

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 260, Issue 16, 1988, Pages 2347-2353

  Hsiao, William C ^a   Braun, Peter ^a   Dunn, Daniel ^a   Becker, Edmund R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH ECONOMICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEE SCHEDULES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0023684287     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1988.03410160021004     Document Type: Article

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