TY  - JOUR
T1  - Editorial - The Principle of Utility in Cost-Based Contemporary Medical Care
AU  - Bullough, Peter G.
AU  - Dorfman, Howard D.
Y1  - 1998/03/01
N1  - 
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 311
EP  - 2
VL  - 80
IS  - 3
N2  - 
    Reimbursement for medical procedures began to diminish in the 1980s with the introduction of a prospective-payment system that was based on diagnosis-related groups. The problem has escalated with increasing administrative costs and the advent of managed care. An important, and much discussed, result has been the curtailment of funding for education and research. In an environment in which cost-cutting has become a paramount goal, it was also inevitable that many laboratory and clinical procedures that we have taken for granted during most of our professional lives would be called into question.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ER  -