Hospital care and drug costs from five years before until two years after the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in a Finnish nationwide cohort

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 150-158

  Taipale, Heidi ^a   Tolppanen, Anna Maija ^a   Purhonen, Maija ^b   Tanskanen, Antti ^c   Tiihonen, Jari ^a   Hartikainen, Sirpa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; cohort studies; healthcare costs; pharmaceutical economics

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84975292499     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494815614705     Document Type: Article

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