Associations of frailty with health care costs - Results of the ESTHER cohort study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bock, Jens Oliver ^a   König, Hans Helmut ^a   Brenner, Hermann ^b,c   Haefeli, Walter E ^c   Quinzler, Renate ^c   Matschinger, Herbert ^a,d   Saum, Kai Uwe ^b   Schöttker, Ben ^b   Heider, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costs; Economic; Frailty; Old age; Utilization of services

Indexed keywords

AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84963891927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1360-3     Document Type: Article

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