Increasing Costs of Urinary Incontinence Among Female Medicare Beneficiaries

Journal of Urology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 247-251

  Anger, Jennifer T ^a   Saigal, Christopher S ^a   Madison, Rodger ^a   Joyce, Geoffrey ^a   Litwin, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

costs and cost analysis; economics; Medicare; urinary incontinence; women's health

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTPATIENT; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MEDICARE; OFFICE VISITS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33744809524     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(06)00588-X     Document Type: Article

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