Treating alcoholism reduces financial burden on care-givers and increases quality-adjusted life years

Addiction

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 62-70

  Salize, Hans Joachim ^a   Jacke, Christian ^a   Kief, Sven ^a   Franz, Michael ^b   Mann, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Vitos Klinikum Kurhessen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Care giver burden; Cost per QALY; Financial burden; QALY; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ALCOHOLISM; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RECURRENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84871671840     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.04002.x     Document Type: Article

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