Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 347-360 , June 2006

Evidence-based anaesthesia and health economics

  • Tom Pedersen, MD, DMSc (Director of The Centre of Head-Ortopaedics, and Co-ordinating Editor, The Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationTel.: +45 4535 3050.

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PII: S1521-6896(05)00074-1

doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2005.10.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 347-360 , June 2006