Direct costs of asthma in Brazil: a comparison between controlled and uncontrolled asthmatic patients
Asthma is a common chronic illness that imposes a heavy burden on all aspects of the patient's life, including personal and health care cost expenditures. To analyze the direct cost associated to uncontrolled asthma patients, a cross-sectional study was conducted to determine costs related to p...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2007-07-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2007000700008 |