Potential hospital cost-savings attributed to improvements in outcomes for colorectal cancer surgery following self-audit

BMC Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gordon, Louisa G ^a,b   Obermair, Andreas ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949356262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-10-4     Document Type: Article

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