Use of Markov modeling for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of immunosuppressive therapies in renal transplant recipients.
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Study population The study population comprised patients who had undergone primary cadaveric kidney transplant. The study sample comprised two Neoraland three Sim-treated cohorts of patients, who were enrolled in prospective randomised doubleblind clinical trials in the USA and Europe. In addition, there was a cohort of 4,727 Sim-treated first cadaveric transplant recipients selected from the US Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) databases. The selection criteria were as follows:
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Transplantation proceedings
دوره 28 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996