|Articles|January 10, 2013

Hospital Admissions and MS: Temporal Trends and Patient Characteristics

Patients with a longer disease duration and those with primary progressive MS were found to have higher rates of admission and longer hospital stays in this study from The American Journal of Managed Care.

Patients with a longer disease duration and those with primary progressive MS were found to have higher rates of admission and longer hospital stays in this study from The American Journal of Managed Care.

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