Preoperative spirometry and laparotomy: Blowing away dollars

Chest

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1536-1541

  De Nino, Louis A ^a   Lawrence, Valerie A ^a,b   Averyt, Ellen C ^a   Hilsenbeck, Susan G ^c   Dhanda, Rahul ^d   Page, Carey P ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Division of General Medicine   (United States)

^c Division of Oncology   (United States)

^d Division of Community Geriatrics   (United States)

^e Division of Geriatrics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Preoperative care; Pulmonary function testing surgery operative

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0030973230     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.6.1536     Document Type: Article

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