The cost efficacy of hypothetically eliminating adverse anesthetic outcomes from high-risk, but neither low- nor moderate-risk, surgical operations.

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Published in Anesth Analg on November 01, 1995

Authors

F Dexter1, J H Tinker

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA.

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