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Reducing the cost of dental care / Robert T. Kudrle and Lawrence Meskin, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Publications in the health sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dental economics--United States.
- Dental economics.
- Dental care--United States--Cost control.
- Dental care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 219 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1983.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Spiraling health care costs have encouraged health care practitioners, public policy-makers, and consumers to find ways of maintaining high quality care at affordable rates. Reducing the Cost of Dental Care examines a number of ways in which cost savings might be realized in dentistry. This collection of papers, written by health economists and dentists, brings together economic issues and health care aspects of the debate. Each of the six chapters addresses a particular issue concerning cost and quality of care. Chapter one shows the probable effects on dental costs of advertising, franchising
- Contents:
- Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1. Market Forces; 2. The Delivery of Dental Care; 3. Auxiliary Personnel; 4. Cost Containment in Dental Education; 5. Prevention of Oral Disease; 6. Quality Assurance; 7. Summary and Research Suggestions; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816663361
- 081666336X
- OCLC:
- 476162218
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