Changes in the use of diagnostic technologies among medicare patients, 1985 and 1990

Inquiry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 363-372

  Gehlbach, Stephen H ^a   Adamache, Killard W ^b   Cromwell, Jerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Health Economics Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEALTH INSURANCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030466595     PISSN: 00469580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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