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Costs were those related to the program (including outpatient visits, pharmacy, laboratory tests and home care), surgery and hospitalization.
Including asthma medications, emergency-department visits, home-care visits, hospital admissions, primary-care and specialist visits.
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This Month’s News. Dis-Manage-Health-Outcomes 9, 601–604 (2001). https://doi.org/10.2165/00115677-200109100-00008
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