Weekend work: Balancing competing interests

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 66-67

  Tanio, Craig ^a  

^a University System of Baltimore   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST CONTROL; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; THORAX PAIN;

COST SAVINGS; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT DISCHARGE;

EID: 0032934073     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.00284.x     Document Type: Editorial

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