Swimming upstream: Doing less in health care is hard

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 856-858

  LeFevre, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

DIRECT SERVICE COSTS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84878511132     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.535     Document Type: Note

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