Variation in pediatric outpatient adenotonsillectomy costs in a multihospital network

Laryngoscope

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1215-1220

  Meier, Jeremy D ^a,c   Zhang, Yingying ^b   Greene, Tom H ^b   Curtis, Jonathan L ^a   Srivastava, Rajendu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c Institute for Health Care Delivery Research   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; Pediatric tonsillectomy costs; variation

Indexed keywords

ADENOTONSILLAR HYPERTROPHY; ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; CHILD; CHRONIC TONSILLITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST; ECONOMICS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 84928578357     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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