Japanese surgical resource utilization in 2016.
Yoshinori NakataYuichi WatanabeHiroto NarimatsuTatsuya YoshimuraHiroshi OtakeTomohiro SawaPublished in: International journal of health care quality assurance (2020)
The authors demonstrated that the surgeons' efficiency was significantly different among their specialties. This suggests that the Japanese surgical reimbursement scales fail to reflect resource utilization despite the revision in 2016.