Consensus development and application of ICD-9-CM codes for defining chronic illnesses and their complications.
Background: One particularly difficult challenge in evaluating disease management (DM) programs is defining the scope of economic outcomes to include in the evaluation. Measuring 'all-cause utilization' or 'total costs' assumes that a DM intervention impacts the entire spectrum of services rendered...
| Publicado en: | Disease Management & Health Outcomes Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 315 - 323 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2007
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