Hospital overhead costs: The neglected driver of health care spending?

Journal of Health Care Finance

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kalman, Noah S ^a   Hammill, Bradley G ^a   Schulman, Kevin A ^b   Shah, Bimal R ^a,b  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941056709     PISSN: 10786767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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