Evaluating chronic disease for heterogeneous populations: The case of arthritis

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 860-868

  Scharff, Robert L ^a   Jessup, Amber ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Chronic disease; Cost effectiveness; HALY; Program evaluation; QALY

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548062581     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3180618bac     Document Type: Article

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