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SUBMITTER: Ramsay LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454113 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Emerging infectious diseases 20200901 9
To determine incidence-based healthcare costs attributable to nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease (PD) and NTM pulmonary isolation (PI), from the healthcare payer perspective, we conducted a population-based matched cohort study in Ontario, Canada. We established cohorts of patients with incident NTM-PD and NTM-PI during 2001-2012 by using individually linked laboratory data and health administrative data, matched to unexposed persons from the general population. To estimate att ...[more]