Lifetime costs of lung transplantation: Estimation of incremental costs

Health Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 479-489

  Van Enckevort, Petra J ^a   Koopmanschap, Marc A ^b   Tenvergert, Elisabeth M ^a   Geertsma, Albert ^a   Van Der Bij, Wim ^a   De Boer, Wim J ^a   Rutten, Frans F H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incremental costs; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL COST; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NETHERLANDS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 0030722566     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199709)6:5<479::AID-HEC287>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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