High and rising health care costs. Part 4: Can costs be controlled while preserving quality?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-31

  Bodenheimer, Thomas ^a,b   Fernandez, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COST CONTROL; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; NURSE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 21544443869     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-1-200507050-00007     Document Type: Review

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