Excess costs of dementia disorders and the role of age and gender - An analysis of German health and long-term care insurance claims data

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schwarzkopf, Larissa ^a   Menn, Petra ^a   Leidl, Reiner ^a   Wunder, Sonja ^b   Mehlig, Hilmar ^c   Marx, Peter ^d   Graessel, Elmar ^e   Holle, Rolf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AOK Bavaria Health Insurer   (Germany)

^c Eisai GmbH   (Germany)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Case control study; Economics; Health care sector; Long term care sector; Net expenditures; Nursing care; Payer perspective

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PENSION; PREVALENCE; RETIREMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PENSIONS; PREVALENCE; RETIREMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SECURITY;

EID: 84862273579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-165     Document Type: Article

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