Is downsizing and disbanding specialty care teams a counterproductive strategy for cost reduction in health care?

Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 725-728

  Ryder, Marcia ^a   Scott, Walter ^b   Helm, Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COST CONTROL; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; HEALTH CARE COST; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL DOWNSIZING; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 0031752258     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(98)00071-9     Document Type: Article

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