Influence of patient and hospital characteristics on anesthesia time in medicare patients undergoing general and orthopedic surgery.

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Published in Anesthesiology on February 01, 2007

Authors

Jeffrey H Silber1, Paul R Rosenbaum, Xuemei Zhang, Orit Even-Shoshan

Author Affiliations

1: The Center for Outcomes Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. silber@email.chop.edu

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