Implications to payers of switch from hospital-based intravenous immunoglobulin to home-based subcutaneous immunoglobulin therapy in patients with primary and secondary immunodeficiencies in Canada

Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gerth, William C ^a   Betschel, Stephen D ^b   Zbrozek, Arthur S ^c  

^a W C Gerth and Associates LLC   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c CSL Behring LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

FTEs; Full time equivalents; IVIg; Labor costs; Nurse time; PID; SCIg; SID

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901477766     PISSN: 17101484     EISSN: 17101492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1710-1492-10-23     Document Type: Article

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