Variability in costs across hospital wards. A study of Chinese hospitals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Adam, Taghreed ^a   Evans, David B ^a   Ying, Bian ^b   Murray, Christopher J L ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b University of Macau   (Macao)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION COST; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; WARD; CHINA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84902168475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097874     Document Type: Article

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