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SUBMITTER: Escobar C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Escobar Carlos C Varela Luis L Palacios Beatriz B Capel Margarita M Sicras Antoni A Sicras Aram A Hormigo Antonio A Alcázar Roberto R Manito Nicolás N Botana Manuel M
BMC health services research 20201020 1
<h4>Background</h4>Increasing the knowledge about heart failure (HF) costs and their determinants is important to ascertain how HF management can be optimized, leading to a significant decrease of HF costs. This study evaluated the cumulative costs and healthcare utilisation in HF patients in Spain.<h4>Methods</h4>Observational, retrospective, population-based study using BIG-PAC database, which included data from specialized and primary care of people ≥18 years, from seven autonomous communitie ...[more]