Exploring the influence of proximity to death on disease-specific hospital expenditures: A carpaccio of red herrings

Health Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 379-400

  Wong, Albert ^a,b   Van Baal, Pieter H M ^a,c   Boshuizen, Hendriek C ^a   Polder, Johan J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Health care expenditure; Hospital morbidity; Proximity to death; Two part model

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEATH; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMITY TO DEATH;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952593514     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1597     Document Type: Article

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