The limitations of using operating room utilisation to allocate surgeons more or less surgical block time in the USA

A Macario¹

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¹ Professor of Anesthesia and (by courtesy) of Health Research & Policy Program Director, Anesthesia Residency Department of Anesthesia Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, California, USA E-mail: amaca@stanford.edu.

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A Macario. Anaesthesia. 2010 Jun.

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. 2010 Jun;65(6):548-552.

doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2010.06374.x.

A Macario¹

¹ Professor of Anesthesia and (by courtesy) of Health Research & Policy Program Director, Anesthesia Residency Department of Anesthesia Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, California, USA E-mail: amaca@stanford.edu.

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