The excessive cost of early stage bladder cancer care: Are providers really to blame?

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3530-3532

  Hemani, Micah L ^a   Bennett, Charles L ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; EARLY CANCER; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICARE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT;

HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; MEDICARE; RECURRENCE; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; UNITED STATES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77955396979     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25227     Document Type: Editorial

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