A financial analysis of operative facial fracture management

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1323-1327

  Erdmann, Detlev ^a   Price, Karen ^a   Reed, Shelby ^a   Follmar, Keith E ^a   Levin, L Scott ^a   Marcus, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DRUG COST; FACE FRACTURE; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL PURCHASING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; OPERATING ROOM; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSICIAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; RADIOGRAPHY; RECOVERY ROOM; REIMBURSEMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; COST; ECONOMICS; FACIAL BONE; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE COST; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES;

EID: 42949160572     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000304603.19047.0b     Document Type: Article

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