Cost-utility of a visiting service for older widowed individuals: Randomised trial

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Onrust, Simone ^a   Smit, Filip ^a,b   Willemse, Godelief ^a   Bout, Jan Van Den ^c   Cuijpers, Pim ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WIDOW; WIDOWER; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FOLLOW UP; GROUP PROCESS; LONELINESS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEREAVEMENT; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 52249114287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-128     Document Type: Article

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