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Savedoff (2004) states, “Forty years ago, Kenneth Arrow published “uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care” in the American Economic Review. This paper become not only one of the most widely cited articles in the field of health economics – indeed, it marked the creation of the discipline.”
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Brew-Graves, C., Morris, S., Alvarado, M. (2014). Health Economics of TARGIT. In: Keshtgar, M., Pigott, K., Wenz, F. (eds) Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39821-6_20
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