Hospital expenditure at the end-of-life: what are the impacts of health status and health risks?

It is important for health policy and expenditure projections to understand the relationship between age, death and expenditure on health care (HC). Research has shown that older age groups incur lower hospital costs than previously anticipated and that remaining time to death (TTD) was a much stron...

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Main Authors: Claudia Geue, Paula Lorgelly, James Lewsey, Carole Hart, Andrew Briggs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4352086?pdf=render