Health care utilization for patients with stroke: a 3-year cross-sectional study of China's two urban health insurance schemes across four cities

• Main Authors: Yong Yang (Author), Stephen Nicholas (Author), Shuo Li (Author), Zhengwei Huang (Author), Xiaoping Chen (Author), Yong Ma (Author), Xuefeng Shi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Stroke is a devastating disease and a major cause of death and disability in China. While existing studies focused mainly on differences in stroke patients' health care utilization by insurance type, this study assesses whether health utilization and medical costs differed b...