The treatment of newly diagnosed patients with glaucoma or with ocular hypertension in the Netherlands: An observational study of costs and initial treatment success based on retrospective chart review

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-299

  Oostenbrink, J B ^a   Rutten Van Molken M P M H ^a   Opdenoordt, T S ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Pharmacia and Upjohn   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Costs; Economic evaluation; Glaucoma; Health care resource use; Intraocular pressure; Ocular hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRABECULECTOMY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIURETICS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIOTICS; NETHERLANDS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRABECULECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033357989     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002453604171     Document Type: Article

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