Decreasing hospital costs while maintaining quality: Can it be done?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-318

  Katz, Mitchell H ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949881788     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.519     Document Type: Editorial

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