Estimating the cost of treating patients with liver cirrhosis at the Mexican Social Security Institute Estimación de costos de la atención de pacientes con cirrosis hepática en el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

• Main Authors: María Esther Quiroz (Author), Yvonne N Flores (Author), Belkis Aracena (Author), Víctor Granados-García (Author), Jorge Salmerón (Author), Ruth Pérez (Author), Guillermo Cabrera (Author), Roshan Bastani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE. To estimate the annual cost of treating patients with cirrhosis at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS per its abbreviation in Spanish). MATERIAL AND METHODS. The annual cost of treating three stages of cirrhosis (Child-Pugh A, Child-Pugh B and Child-Pugh C) was estimated using...