Journal article
The cost of poor adjustment to chronic illness: lessons from three studies
Abstract
This paper summarizes information about expenditures for people with chronic illness as a function of their psychosocial adjustment to illness. Three studies are discussed: two prospective baseline surveys and one historic cohort analytic study. Each was conducted between 1988 and 1993 in Southern Ontario, Canada in tertiary centres which were treating patients recently referred to a specialty medical clinic for one of 13 types of chronic …
Authors
Browne G; Roberts J; Weir R; Gafni A; Watt S; Byrne C
Journal
Health & Social Care in the Community, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 85–93
Publisher
Hindawi
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2524.1994.tb00153.x
ISSN
0966-0410