“Can We Declare Victory and Move On?” The Case Against Funding Burden-of-Disease Studies

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1153-1155

  Kymes, Steven ^a,b  

^a Medwin Group   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE COURSE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PHYSICIAN; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION;

COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS;

EID: 84912082683     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11792027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40273-014-0200-8     Document Type: Editorial

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