Owning the cost of emergency medicine: Beyond 2%

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Michael H ^a   Schuur, Jeremiah D ^b   Zink, Brian J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84886953319     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.03.029     Document Type: Article

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