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Determinants of health care costs in the senior elderly: age, comorbidity, impairment, or proximity to death?

Ageing is assumed to be accompanied by greater health care expenditures but the association is also viewed as a ‘red herring’. This study aimed to evaluate whether age is associated with health care costs in the senior elderly, using electronic health records for 98,220 participants aged 80 years an...

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Autores principales: Hazra, Nisha C., Rudisill, Caroline, Gulliford, Martin C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6008359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28856487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-017-0926-2