Review: Health care utilization and costs of elderly persons with multiple chronic conditions

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 387-420

  Lehnert, Thomas ^a   Heider, Dirk ^b   Leicht, Hanna ^a   Heinrich, Sven ^a   Corrieri, Sandro ^b   Luppa, Melanie ^b   Riedel Heller, Steffi ^b   König, Hans Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

aged; health care costs; health care utilization; multimorbidity; multiple chronic conditions

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG COST; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051518702     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: 15526801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558711399580     Document Type: Review

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