Cost-aware care: Critical core competency

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 222-226

  Chandawarkar, Rajiv Y ^a   Taylor, Shiv ^a   Abrams, Peter ^b   Duffy, Andrew ^b   Voytovich, Anthony ^a   Longo, Walter E ^b   Kozol, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAMINOPHEN PLUS OXYCODONE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLEET ENEMA; GENTAMICIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; MORPHINE; ONDANSETRON; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROMETHAZINE; RANITIDINE; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SULTAMICILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TRAINING;

AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COLECTOMY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY;

EID: 33947430999     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.3.222     Document Type: Article

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