Annual direct and indirect health care costs of chronic idiopathic urticaria: A cost analysis of 50 nonimmunosuppressed patients

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-39

  DeLong, Laura K ^a   Culler, Steven D ^b   Saini, Sarbjit S ^c   Beck, Lisa A ^c,d   Chen, Suephy C ^a,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOPATHY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URTICARIA;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URTICARIA;

EID: 38549141969     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2007.5     Document Type: Article

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