Hospital costs associated with surgical complications: a report from the private-sector National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

By J. Dimick, Steven L. Chen, P. Taheri, W. Henderson, S. Khuri, D. Campbell. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2004

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