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Diabetes

Assessing the cost-effectiveness of a once-weekly GLP-1 analogue versus an SGLT-2 inhibitor in the Spanish setting: Once-weekly semaglutide versus empagliflozin

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Pages 193-203 | Received 06 Aug 2019, Accepted 14 Oct 2019, Published online: 18 Nov 2019

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