Healthcare resource consumption in terminal care

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 2-12

  Kaplan, Robert M ^a,b   Schneiderman, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SHORT SURVEY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0031015674     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00019053-199711010-00002     Document Type: Short Survey

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