Health care as a "market good"? Appendicitis as a case study

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 818-819

  Hsia, Renee Y ^a   Kothari, Abbas H ^a   Srebotnjak, Tanja ^c   Maselli, Judy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ECOLOGIC INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ICD-9; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861665770     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1173     Document Type: Article

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