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Trauma care requires highly skilled surgeons working in a highly technical environment in a time restrained manner. In many areas, trauma patients are, on the whole, less well insured than patients in other surgical domains. The macroeconomic impact of injury is reviewed and a microeconomic approach to trauma service structure is presented.
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Millham, F. (2012). The Economics of Trauma Care. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20453-1_76
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