title: Counting costs in COPD: what do the numbers mean?
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY. Electronic address: dmannino@uky.edu.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Mannino
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000191:economics*