Estimated cost of asthma in outpatient treatment: a real-world study

• Main Authors: Eduardo Costa (Author), Rosangela Caetano (Author), Guilherme Loureiro Werneck (Author), Maurício Bregman (Author), Denizar Vianna Araújo (Author), Rogério Rufino (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost of diagnosis and treatment of asthma. METHODS We used the perspective of society. We sequentially included for 12 months, in 2011-2012, 117 individuals over five years of age who were treated for asthma in the Pneumology and Allergy-Immunology Services of the...