Robot-assisted surgery and health care costs [9]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2174-2176

  Shukla, Parul J ^a   Scherr, Douglas S ^a   Milsom, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST CONTROL; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; ECONOMICS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGY, HIGH-COST; COST SAVINGS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78649424320     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1010658     Document Type: Letter

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