Medicare ESRD Prospective Payment System: Weighing the Evidence
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Medicare ESRD prospective payment system: weighing the evidence.
Medicare ESRD Prospective Payment System: Weighing the Evidence Jonathan Himmelfarb* and Glenn M. Chertow *Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine; and Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 1164–1165, 2005. doi: 10.1681/A...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1681/asn.2005030315