Benefit-cost assessment of influenza vaccination in the elderly in Liguria (Italy);Valutazione benefici-costi della vaccinazione antinfluenzale negli anziani in Liguria

PharmacoEconomics - Italian Research Articles

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 23-30

  Gasparini, Roberto ^a   Lucioni, C ^b   Lai, P ^a   Maggioni, P ^a   Sticchi, L ^a   Durando, P ^a   Morelli, P ^a   Comino, I ^a   Calderisi, S ^a   Crovari, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Adis International Ltd   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BROMHEXINE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CODEINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; KETOPROFEN; LEVDROPROPIZINE; MACROLIDE; PARACETAMOL; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; ITALY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRICIAN; TELEPHONE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 0038028816     PISSN: 15909158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03320612     Document Type: Article

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