Owning and reducing the cost of health care in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 506-508

  Low, Ronald B ^a,b   Yealy, Donald M ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cape Fear Valley Health System Cancer Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84886952540     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.06.015     Document Type: Editorial

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