Private costs almost equal health care costs when intervening in mild Alzheimer's: A cohort study alongside the DAISY trial

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Søgaard, Rikke ^a   Sørensen, Jan ^a   Waldorff, Frans B ^b,c   Eckermann, Ane ^b   Buss, Dorthe V ^b   Waldemar, Gunhild ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIVATE COST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; COHORT STUDIES; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALE; PRIVATE SECTOR;

EID: 72849128155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-215     Document Type: Article

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