Indirect costs of rheumatoid arthritis in Brazil

Value in Health

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 869-877

  De Azevedo, Ana Beatriz Cordeiro ^a,b   Ferraz, Marcos Bosi ^a   Ciconelli, Rozana Mesquita ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disability; Indirect cost; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; PENSIONER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WORK;

EID: 52649139501     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00332.x     Document Type: Article

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