Hospital market concentration, pricing, and profitability in orthopedic surgery and interventional cardiology

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Robinson, James C ^a  

^a School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HEART RHYTHM; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LUMBAR DISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; SPINE FUSION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COMMERCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MARKETING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDICS; SPINAL FUSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960280725     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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