Are community-living and institutionalized dementia patients cared for differently? Evidence on service utilization and costs of care from German insurance claims data

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schwarzkopf, Larissa ^a   Menn, Petra ^a   Leidl, Reiner ^a   Graessel, Elmar ^b   Holle, Rolf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADL impairment; Budget impact; Care level; Care setting; Health care; Long term care; Nursing care; Payer perspective; Social security system; Spending

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOME; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871712282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-2     Document Type: Article

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