Service Use and Costs of Incident Femoral Fractures in Nursing Home Residents in Germany: The Bavarian Fall and Fracture Prevention Project (BF2P2)

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 459-466

  Heinrich, Sven ^a   Rapp, Kilian ^b,c   Rissmann, Ulrich ^b   Becker, Clemens ^b   König, Hans Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Femoral fracture; Incidence based; Initial costs; Long term costs; Nursing home residents; Payer perspective

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; GERIATRIC REHABILITATION; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NURSING HOME PATIENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959616633     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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