The cost of lung transplantation in Iran

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 30-33

  Abbasi Dezfouli, Azizollah ^a   Pojhan, Saviz ^a   Behgam Shacimehr, Mohammad ^a   Najafizadeh, Katayoun ^a   Ghorbani, Fariba ^a   Lorgard Dezfuii Nejad, Mohammad ^b   Assari, Shervin ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Medicine and Health Promotion Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

Costs; Developing countries; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ECONOMICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IRAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67649822888     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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