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- 2016
Disease burden of spinal muscular atrophy in GermanyDOI: 10.1186/s13023-016-0424-0 Keywords: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Health-related quality of life (HRQOL), Direct cost, Indirect cost, Informal care cost, Cost of illness (COI), Health care burden, Neuromuscular disease, Health services research Abstract: This study aimed at analyzing the economic burden and disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in Germany. SMA is a so far non-curable neuromuscular disease of the anterior nerve cells that causes high rates of morbidity and mortality
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