Surgery
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 389-392 , September 2009

Health economics in surgery

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PII: S0263-9319(09)00185-9

doi: 10.1016/j.mpsur.2009.08.011

Surgery
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 389-392 , September 2009