The New Zealand Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry
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Mortality and hospitalisation costs of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in New Zealand.
AIMS To estimate the annual mortality and the cost of hospital admissions for acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) for New Zealand residents. METHODS Hospital admissions in 2000-2009 with a principal diagnosis of ARF or RHD (ICD9_AM 390-398; ICD10-AM I00-I099) and deaths in 2000-2007 with RHD as the underlying cause were obtained from routine statistics. The cost ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart, Lung and Circulation
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1443-9506
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.05.141