Characterizing the impact of mental disorders on HIV patient length of stay and total charges
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Characterizing the impact of mental disorders on HIV patient length of stay and total charges Shengfan Zhang a , Fay Cobb Payton b & Julie Simmons Ivy c a Department of Industrial Engineering , University of Arkansas , Fayetteville , AR , USA b Information Systems, College of Management , North Carolina State University , Raleigh , NC , USA c Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering , North Carolina State University , Raleigh , NC , USA Accepted author version posted online: 22 Jul 2013.Published online: 05 Sep 2013.
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