Clinical Trial Trends in Latin America: communicable Versus Non-Communicable Disease.
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چکیده
• ClinicalTrials.gov was searched in July 2015 for all trials with a study start date from January 2000 to December 2014 in five Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.1 • Studies were classified as either related to communicable or non-communicable disease according to the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Disease10, with studies that did not focus on disease or illness excluded.2 • Mortality rates were obtained from the WHO Global Burden of Disease: Disease and injury country estimates from 2008, and combined for the five selected countries, adjusting for population.3
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
دوره 18 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015