The cost of an emergency department visit and its relationship to emergency department volume

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 483-490

  Bamezai, Anil ^a   Melnick, Glenn ^a,b   Nawathe, Amar ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 17844368111     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.08.029     Document Type: Article

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