Capsule Commentary on Silvestri et al., Impact of Cost Display on Ordering Patterns for Hospital Laboratory and Imaging Services

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Joseph A Ladapo. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Aug.

. 2018 Aug;33(8):1383.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4516-5.

¹ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. jladapo@mednet.ucla.edu.

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Impact of Cost Display on Ordering Patterns for Hospital Laboratory and Imaging Services.
Silvestri MT, Xu X, Long T, Bongiovanni T, Bernstein SL, Chaudhry SI, Silvestri JI, Stolar M, Greene EJ, Dziura JD, Gross CP, Krumholz HM. Silvestri MT, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Aug;33(8):1268-1275. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4495-6. Epub 2018 May 29. J Gen Intern Med. 2018. PMID: 29845468 Free PMC article.

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