Cost of Acute Stroke Care at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 552-555

  Khealani, B A ^a   Javed, Z F ^b   Syed, N A ^a   Shafqat, S ^a   Wasay, M ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX RATIO; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0345827913     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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