Associations of frailty with health care costs – results of the ESTHER cohort study

BACKGROUND: The concept of frailty is rapidly gaining attention as an independent syndrome with high prevalence in older adults. Thereby, frailty is often related to certain adverse outcomes like mortality or disability. Another adverse outcome discussed is increased health care utilization. However...

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Autores principales: Bock, Jens-Oliver, König, Hans-Helmut, Brenner, Hermann, Haefeli, Walter E., Quinzler, Renate, Matschinger, Herbert, Saum, Kai-Uwe, Schöttker, Ben, Heider, Dirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27074800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1360-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27074800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1360-3

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