Clinical Appropriateness Criteria Can Help Contain Elective Procedure Costs – NEJM
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A New England Journal of Medicine article offers reasons why clinical appropriateness criteria could reduce costs and the number of patients who choose elective procedures such as total joint arthroplasty.
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