Direct Health Care Costs Associated with Asthma in British Columbia

Mohsen Sadatsafavi; Larry Lynd; Carlo Marra; Bruce Carleton; Wan C Tan; Sean Sullivan; J Mark FitzGerald

doi:10.1155/2010/361071

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2010)

Direct Health Care Costs Associated with Asthma in British Columbia

Mohsen Sadatsafavi,
Larry Lynd,
Carlo Marra,
Bruce Carleton,
Wan C Tan,
Sean Sullivan,
J Mark FitzGerald

Affiliations

Mohsen Sadatsafavi: Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, University of British Columbia, Canada
Larry Lynd: Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, University of British Columbia, Canada
Carlo Marra: Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, University of British Columbia, Canada
Bruce Carleton: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada
Wan C Tan: Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sean Sullivan: University of British Columbia, Departments of Pharmacy, Health Services and Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Mark FitzGerald: Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/361071
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 2
pp. 74 – 80

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: A better understanding of health care costs associated with asthma would enable the estimation of the economic burden of this increasingly common disease.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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