Productivity loss due to premature mortality caused by blood cancer: a study based on patients undergoing stem cell transplantation

• Main Authors: Marta Ortega-Ortega (Author), Juan Oliva-Moreno (Author), Juan de Dios Jiménez-Aguilera (Author), Antonio Romero-Aguilar (Author), Ildefonso Espigado-Tocino (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Stem cell transplantation has been used for many years to treat haematological malignancies that could not be cured by other treatments. Despite this medical breakthrough, mortality rates remain high. Our purpose was to evaluate labour productivity losses associated with premature mort...