Implicit discount rates of vascular surgeons in the management of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 168-177

  Enemark, Ulrika ^a   Lyttkens, Carl H ^b   Troëng, Thomas ^b   Weibull, Henrik ^b   Ranstam, Jonas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decision making; Physician time preference rate; Vascular disease

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0031916578     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9801800206     Document Type: Article

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