Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 616-622 , June 2009

Cost-effectiveness analysis for surgeons

  • Bas Groot Koerkamp, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery at Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Y. Claire Wang, MD, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Myriam G.M. Hunink, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Myriam G. M. Hunink, MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Room Ee 21-40a, Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands

,Accepted 10 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.03.006

Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 616-622 , June 2009

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