Physician specialty society clinical guidelines and bending the cost curve

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1097-1099

  Drozda, Joseph P ^a  

^a Mercy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 84879589681     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.820     Document Type: Note

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