An Economic Evaluation of Home Care for Children with Newly Diagnosed Diabetes: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 586-598

  Dougherty, Geoffrey E ^a   Soderstrom, Lee ^b   Schiffrin, Alicia ^a  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Economic evaluation; Home care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUEBEC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032037502     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199804000-00014     Document Type: Article

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