title: The physician's role in controlling health care costs.
abstract: Choices about referrals, tests, and prescriptions offer physicians many opportunities to reduce health care costs. Some commonsense measures are described, and the principles to which cost-effectiveness analyses should adhere are explained.
authors.affiliation: Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Medical Center, Bedford, Mass, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prashker
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000191:economics; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency