Cost of Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Claims Data Analysis

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-105

  Birnbaum, Howard G ^a   Leong, Stephanie A ^a   Oster, Emily F ^a   Kinchen, Kraig ^b   Sun, Peter ^b  

^a ANALYSIS GROUP   (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS INCONTINENCE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 1242294572     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00019053-200422020-00003     Document Type: Article

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