Health Care Rationing through Inconvenience

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 321, Issue 9, 1989, Pages 607-611

  Grumet, Gerald W ^a  

^a ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

COST CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; INSURANCE BENEFITS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICAID; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0024340950     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198908313210909     Document Type: Editorial

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