Using average cost methods to estimate encounter-level costs for medical-surgical stays in the VA

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 60, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Wagner, Todd H ^a   Chen, Shuo ^b   Barnett, Paul G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Charges; Cost; Expenditures; Short stay hospitalization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; COST OF ILLNESS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICARE; SOLDIER; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; CHEMICAL BINDING; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHYSICIAN; VETERAN;

EID: 0041742180     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558703256485     Document Type: Article

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