Estimating Physicians' Work for a Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 13, 1988, Pages 835-841

  Hsiao, William C ^a   Braun, Peter ^a   Yntema, Douwe ^b   Becker, Edmund R ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME;

EID: 0023773374     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198809293191305     Document Type: Article

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