Laboratory economics. Risk or opportunity?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1701-1703

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Plebani, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INCOME; LABORATORY ECONOMICS; LABORATORY TEST; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; LABORATORY;

HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES;

EID: 84991309813     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2016-0313     Document Type: Editorial

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