Policy implications of hospital system failures: The Allegheny Bankruptcy

History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In

Volumn 9780813539874, Issue , 2006, Pages 273-308

  Burns, Lawton R ^a   Burns, Alexandra P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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