A new index approach to measure lost benefits from progression to blindness

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 635-644

  Althin, Rikard ^a   Lundström, Mats ^b   Roos, Pontus ^c  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b BLEKINGE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c R R Institute of Applied Economics

Author keywords

Blindness; Cataract; Linear programming; Outcome measures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036623176     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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