Results and Policy Implications of the Resource-Based Relative-Value Study

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 13, 1988, Pages 881-888

  Hsiao, William C ^a   Braun, Peter ^a   Dunn, Daniel ^a   Becker, Edmund R ^a   Denicola, Margaret ^a   Ketcham, Thomas R ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; MEDICINE; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

FEE SCHEDULES; FEES, MEDICAL; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICARE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0024299568     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198809293191330     Document Type: Article

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