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Failure to Diagnose Fibromyalgia Costs Taxpayers and Overburdens the Healthcare System

Wednesday 9 April 2008

MoneyThe American Chronicle’s Lourdes Salvador reports on researchers who have calculated the financial burden on sufferers – and society in general – caused by Fibromyalgia.

The paper, Health economic consequences related to the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome, was authored by a team of researchers at Ghent University in Belgium and published in the March 2008 edition of Arthritis & Rheumatism.

Here’s the full story:

American Chronicle: Failure to Diagnose Fibromyalgia Costs Taxpayers and Overburdens the Healthcare System (external link)

And the abstract of the paper appears here:

PubMed: Health economic consequences related to the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome (external link)

 


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