A warning shot across the bow: The changing face of sleep medicine

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 301-302

  Quan, Stuart F ^a   Epstein, Lawrence J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REIMBURSEMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP MEDICINE;

HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MASSACHUSETTS; SLEEP MEDICINE SPECIALTY;

EID: 84878041590     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.2570     Document Type: Short Survey

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