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The impact of excess body weight at the hospital frontline

Quantification of disease burden by deaths or years lived with disability is a useful indicator as it informs prevention by accounting for health loss but it does not reflect the needs for health services. An alternative indicator is to quantify the impact of a risk factor on health care utilization...

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Autores principales: Renehan, Andrew G, Buchan, Iain E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3990237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-64