The Economic impact of ME/CFS: Individual and societal costs

Dynamic Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Jason, Leonard A ^a   Benton, Mary C ^b   Valentine, Lisa ^c   Johnson, Abra ^a   Torres Harding, Susan ^d  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42449132087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14765918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-5918-7-6     Document Type: Article

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