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Proximity to death and health care expenditure increase revisited: A 15-year panel analysis of elderly persons

BACKGROUND: Health care expenditures (HCE) are known to steepen with increasing age, but the contributions of biological age, morbidity, or proximity to death as cost drivers are debated. Age-associated HCE growth can be studied across two dimensions: within fixed groups of persons with the same bir...

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Autor principal: von Wyl, Viktor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30859485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-019-0224-z