The price of cost savings

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 381-383

  Baker, Ray M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; IOHEXOL; LIDOCAINE; STEROID; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHRONIC PAIN; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYRINGE; ADULT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COST; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CONTRAST MEDIA; COST CONTROL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46749148030     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e318171ce07     Document Type: Article

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