Estimating anesthesia and surgical procedure times from medicare anesthesia claims

Anesthesiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 346-355

  Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,b,c   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^d   Zhang, Xuemei ^a   Even Shoshan, Orit ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MEDICARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846629895     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200702000-00024     Document Type: Article

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