Measurement of Severity of Illness and the Medicare Prospective Payment System: State of the Art and Future Directions

Overview

Journal J Gen Intern Med

Publisher Springer

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1988 Sep 1

PMID 3049970

Citations 5

Authors

L F McMahon Jr

J E Billi

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