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Title
Impact of cost reduction programs on short-term patient outcome and hospital cost of total knee arthroplasty.
Authors
Healy, William L; Iorio, Richard; Ko, John; Appleby, David; Lemos, David W
Abstract
During the 1990s, cost reduction programs were developed to decrease the hospital cost of total knee arthroplasty. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of hospital cost reduction programs for total knee arthroplasty on patient outcome at our hospital.
Publication
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 2002, Vol 84, Issue 3, p348