Incremental health care utilization and costs for acute otitis media in children

Laryngoscope

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 301-305

  Ahmed, Sameer ^a   Shapiro, Nina L ^a   Bhattacharyya, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; children; health care expenditures; health care utilization; incremental analysis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AMBULATORY CARE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG COST; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; ACUTE DISEASE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; OTITIS MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES; INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; CHILDREN; HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84895842787     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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