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Cost effectiveness of anaesthesia/analgesia

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Regional Anaesthesia Analgesia and Pain Management

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The economical assessment of biomedical technologies is a well-established praxis in every industrialized country due to the need to keep health expenditure within a given percentage of the gross national product (GNP).

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  1. Q. Piacevoli
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  2. F. S. Mennini
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  3. F. Palazzo
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  4. E. Ferrari Baliviera
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    M. Tiengo MD (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  2. Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, University of Trieste, Cattinara Hospital, Trieste, Italy

    V. A. Paladini MD

  3. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden

    N. Rawal MD

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Piacevoli, Q., Mennini, F.S., Palazzo, F., Baliviera, E.F. (1999). Cost effectiveness of anaesthesia/analgesia. In: Tiengo, M., Paladini, V.A., Rawal, N. (eds) Regional Anaesthesia Analgesia and Pain Management. Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2240-9_27

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