Effects of Private Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditures in Korean Cancer Patients: Focused on 5 Major Cancers in One Cancer Center
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Lim, Jin-Hwa
(National Cancer Control Research Institute, National Cancer Center)
Choi, Kui-Son (National Cancer Control Research Institute, National Cancer Center) Kim, Sung-Gyeong (National Cancer Control Research Institute, National Cancer Center) Park, Eun-Cheol (National Cancer Control Research Institute, National Cancer Center) Park, Jae-Hyun (National Cancer Control Research Institute, National Cancer Center) |
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