A model to analyse costs and benefit of intensified diabetic foot care in Austria

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 906-912

  Habacher, Wolfgang ^a   Rakovac, Ivo ^a   Görzer, Evelyn ^b   Haas, Waltraud ^b   Gfrerer, Robert J ^c   Wach, Paul ^d   Pieber, Thomas R ^a,e  

^a JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Human Technology   (Austria)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amputation; Costs; Diabetes; Foot ulcer; Markov model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; FOOT ULCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; AMPUTATION; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COST CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 36248955050     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00770.x     Document Type: Article

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