Economics of preoperative evaluation clinics

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 559-562

  Foss, Joseph F ^a   Apfelbaum, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING;

EID: 0034786130     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200110000-00017     Document Type: Review

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