Healthcare expenditure in the United States of America in the last year of life: Where ethics, medicine and economics collide?

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 226-227

  Onuigbo, M A C ^a,b,c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ALBERT LEA EYE CLINIC   (United States)

^c Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG COST; ELDERLY CARE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MEDICARE; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856101062     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: 17421241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2011.02846.x     Document Type: Letter

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