Health benefits and cost-effectiveness from promoting smartphone apps for weight loss: Multistate life table modeling

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Cleghorn, Christine ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a   Nair, Nisha ^a   Kvizhinadze, Giorgi ^a   Nghiem, Nhung ^a   McLeod, Melissa ^a   Blakely, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cost utility analysis; Life tables; Quality adjusted life years; Smartphone; Telemedicine; Weight loss diet

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074062908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/11118     Document Type: Article

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