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Volume 106, Issue 4 , Pages 540-548 , April 2012

Direct medical costs of COPD – An excess cost approach based on two population-based studies

Petra Menn
- Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 89 3187 4166; fax: +49 89 3187 3375.
Joachim Heinrich
- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Rudolf M. Huber
- Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Munich – Campus Innenstadt, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336 Munich, Germany
Rudolf A. Jörres
- Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University of Munich – Campus Innenstadt, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336 Munich, Germany
Jürgen John
- Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Stefan Karrasch
- Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University of Munich – Campus Innenstadt, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336 Munich, Germany
- Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Institute of Lung Biology and Disease, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Holger Schulz
- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
- Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Institute of Lung Biology and Disease, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Rolf Holle
- Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
- The KORA study group consists of H.-E. Wichmann (speaker), R. Holle, J. John, T. Illig, C. Meisinger, A. Peters, and their coworkers, who are responsible for the design and conduct of the KORA studies.
for the KORA Study Group