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No competing interests declared.
Received December 16, 1999; Revised March 28, 2000; Accepted
March 28, 2000.
From the Division of Trauma Burn and Emergency Surgery (Taheri),
University of Michigan Medical Health System, Ann Arbor, MI,
USA and Department of Surgery (Greenfield), University of Michigan
Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; and the Section of Business
Economics (Butz), University of Michigan Business School, Ann
Arbor, MI, USA.
Correspondence address: Paul A Taheri, MD, MBA, FACS, Division
of Trauma Burn and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery,
University of Michigan Medical Health System, 1500 East Medical
Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0033.
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