Resource-intensive endoscopic procedures: do the dollars make sense?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 642-646

  Ross, Andrew S ^a   Roth, Joel ^a   Waxman, Irving ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEES, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53049090556     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.02.056     Document Type: Article

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