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Science 1 December 1978:
Vol. 202. no. 4371, pp. 979 - 982
DOI: 10.1126/science.715453
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Science, Vol 202, Issue 4371, 979-982
Copyright © 1978 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Medical technology and cost containment: two applications of operations research

RS Ledley, TR Thiagarajan, and TP Landau

The government proposes "common sense" regulations to help contain rising health costs due to the increasing use of high-technology procedures, such as computerized tomography scanning. Two illustrations are given showing that such ad hoc regulations may have the effect of increasing costs and are certainly far from the optimum obtained by known methods of operations research.




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