title: Biographical sketch: Ernest Amory Codman, MD (1869-1940).
abstract: This biographical sketch on E.A. Codman corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: A Study in Hospital Efficiency: As Demonstrated by the Case Report of the First Five Years of a Private Hospital (1918), available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-012-2751-3.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. dick.brand@clinorthop.org
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Brand
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000266:history*; D006760:Hospitalization; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000266:history*