Calculating the return on investment of mobile healthcare

BMC Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Oriol, Nancy E ^a   Cote, Paul J ^b   Vavasis, Anthony P ^c   Bennet, Jennifer ^a   DeLorenzo, Darien ^d   Blanc, Philip ^e   Kohane, Isaac ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Independent Health Care Consultant   (United States)

^c Callen Lorde Community Health Center   (United States)

^d Mobile Health Clinics Network   (United States)

^e RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE COST; INVESTMENT; MASS SCREENING; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BOSTON; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 67649286638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-7-27     Document Type: Article

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