Challenges in Building Disease-Based National Health Accounts
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Challenges in building disease-based national health accounts.
BACKGROUND Measuring spending on diseases is critical to assessing the value of medical care. OBJECTIVE To review the current state of cost of illness estimation methods, identifying their strengths, limitations, and uses. We briefly describe the current National Health Expenditure Accounts, and then go on to discuss the addition of cost of illness estimation to the National Health Expenditur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Care
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0025-7079
DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0b013e3181a23e12