Effect of price increase of adrenocorticotropic hormone on treatment practices of infantile spasms

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 163-166

  Wray, Carter D ^a   Benke, Timothy A ^a,b  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; ETIRACETAM; ORPHAN DRUG; PHENOBARBITAL; PYRIDOXINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955526547     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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