Value-based Healthcare: Increasing Value by Reducing Implant-related Health Care Costs

Virginia H. Waldrop; David C. Laverty; Kevin J. Bozic

doi:10.1097/01.blo.0000534683.24250.9c

Value-based Healthcare: Increasing Value by Reducing Implant-related Health Care Costs

Virginia H. Waldrop, David C. Laverty, Kevin J. Bozic

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	281-283
Number of pages	3
Journal	Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Volume	477
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/01.blo.0000534683.24250.9c
State	Published - Feb 1 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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