Development and assessment of a questionnaire for health care utilization and costs for cardiac patients
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Development and first assessment of a questionnaire for health care utilization and costs for cardiac patients
BACKGROUND The valid and reliable measurement of health service utilization, productivity losses and consequently total disease-related costs is a prerequisite for health services research and for health economic analysis. Although administrative data sources are usually considered to be the most accurate, their use is limited as some components of utilization are not systematically captured an...
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