Surgical vampires and rising health care expenditure: Reducing the cost of daily phlebotomy

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 524-527

  Stuebing, Elizabeth A ^a   Miner, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; COST CONTROL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AWARENESS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PHLEBOTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODE ISLAND; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 79955999741     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.103     Document Type: Article

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