Organizational factors affect comparisons of the clinical productivity of academic anesthesiology departments

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 802-812

  Abouleish, Amr E ^a   Prough, Donald S ^a   Barker, Steven J ^b   Whitten, Charles W ^c   Uchida, Tatsuo ^d   Apfelbaum, Jeffrey L ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PRODUCTIVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037371231     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000049689.66901.61     Document Type: Article

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