Increasing the value of time reduces the lost economic opportunity of caring for surgeries of longer-than-average times

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1737-1742

  Abouleish, Amr E ^a   Prough, Donald S ^a   Whitten, Charles W ^b   Conlay, Lydia A ^c  

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

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

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HOSPITAL BILLING; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICARE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 2442710484     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000120087.27151.82     Document Type: Article

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