Analysis of Health Care Costs in Elderly Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions Using a Finite Mixture of Generalized Linear Models

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 582-599

  Eckardt, Matthias ^a   Brettschneider, Christian ^a   van den Bussche, Hendrik ^a   König, Hans Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

cost patterns; finite mixture model; multimorbidity; multiple chronic conditions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; ECONOMICS; GERMANY; MULTIPLE CHRONIC CONDITIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIMORBIDITY;

EID: 84961226404     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3334     Document Type: Article

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