Costs of the diagnostic odyssey in children with inherited leukodystrophies

Neurology

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1167-1170

  Richards, Jackson ^a,c   Kent Korgenski, E ^d   Srivastava, Rajendu ^d   Bonkowsky, Joshua L ^b  

^a Division of Inpatient Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of Pediatric Neurology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Institute for Health Care Delivery Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; HEREDITARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEMYELINATING DISEASES; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; PELIZAEUS-MERZBACHER DISEASE;

CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEREDITARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEMYELINATING DISEASES; HUMANS; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; MALE; PELIZAEUS-MERZBACHER DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84948990736     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000001974     Document Type: Article

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