Effects of multiple chronic conditions on health care costs: An analysis based on an advanced tree-based regression model

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  König, Hans Helmut ^a   Leicht, Hanna ^a   Bickel, Horst ^b   Fuchs, Angela ^c   Gensichen, Jochen ^d   Maier, Wolfgang ^e   Mergenthal, Karola ^f   Riedel Heller, Steffi ^g   Schäfer, Ingmar ^a   Schön, Gerhard ^a   Weyerer, Siegfried ^h   Wiese, Birgitt ⁱ   Bussche, Hendrik Van Den ^a   Scherer, Martin ^a   Eckardt, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^h MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co morbidity; Conditional inference trees; Health care costs; Multimorbidity; Multiple chronic conditions; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AMBULATORY CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878893934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-219     Document Type: Article

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