Enhancing the Australian national health survey data for use in a microsimulation model of pharmaceutical drug usage and cost

JASSS

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Abello, Annie ^a   Lymer, Sharyn ^a   Brown, Laurie ^a   Harding, Ann ^a   Phillips, Ben ^a  

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Author keywords

Base Data; Drug Usage; Microsimulation; Pharmaceutical Benefits; Scripts; Statistical Matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049107617     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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