Profile of hospitalised elderly patients in Belgium—Analysis of factors affecting hospital costs

Julie De Foor, Christelle Senterre, Pol Leclercq, Dimitri Martins and Magali Pirson

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, vol. 15, issue C

Abstract: The objectives of this research are (i) to describe the medicoadministrative profiles of inpatients aged 65 and over and (ii) to determine the main hospitalisation-related diseases in order (iii) to assess and identify predictors influencing hospital costs and lengths of stay thanks to data collected in hospital administrative databases.

Keywords: Old inpatients; Elderly; Epidemiological description; Hospital; Hospital costs; Hospital length of stay; Administrative database (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2019.100209

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