Time is money for both the healthy and the sick

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 637-639

  Lyman, Gary H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL TUMOR; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 22244458291     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000168840.24299.29     Document Type: Editorial

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