The relationship between target joints and direct resource use in severe haemophilia

Jamie O'Hara1, Shaun Walsh2, Charlotte Camp3

  • 1Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Chester, Chester, UK.

Health Economics Review
|January 18, 2018
PubMed
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