The impact of longer-than-average anesthesia times on the billing of academic anesthesiology departments

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1537-1543

  Abouleish, Amr E ^a   Prough, Donald S ^a   Zornow, Mark H ^a   Hughes, Johnette ^a   Whitten, Charles W ^b   Conlay, Lydia A ^c   Abate, James J ^a   Horn, Thomas E ^d  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; MEDICARE; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; REIMBURSEMENT;

EID: 0035201283     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200112000-00042     Document Type: Article

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