Single price/case price purchasing in orthopaedic surgery: Experience at the Lahey Clinic

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 607-612

  Healy, William L ^a   Iorio, Richard ^a   Lemos, Mark J ^a   Patch, Douglas A ^a,b   Pfeifer, Bernard A ^a   Smiley, Paul M ^a   Wilk, Richard M ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HOSPITAL PURCHASING; HOSPITAL RUNNING COST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034035534     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200005000-00001     Document Type: Article

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