Association of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion With Access to and Quality of Care for Surgical Conditions

Overview

Journal JAMA Surg

Publisher American Medical Association

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2018 Jan 25

PMID 29365029

Citations 36

Authors

Andrew P Loehrer

David C Chang

John W Scott

Matthew M Hutter

Virendra I Patel

Jeffrey E Lee

Benjamin D Sommers

Affiliations

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