Health Care Costs and Mortality for Canadian Urban and Rural Patients with Diabetes: Population-Based Trends from 1993-2001

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 29, Issue 6 PART 1, 2007, Pages 1316-1324

  Pohar, Sheri L ^a   Majumdar, Sumit R ^a,b   Johnson, Jeffrey A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

costs; diabetes; health care; health policy; mortality; rural

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONSULTATION; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONEY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; RURAL AREA; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; AGE; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRESCRIPTION FEES; RURAL POPULATION; SASKATCHEWAN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 38449102036     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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