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SUBMITTER: Ilinca S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4319884 | biostudies-other | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Health services research 20140819 1
<h4>Objective</h4>To examine the patterns of health care utilization by the elderly and test the influence of functional decline.<h4>Data source and study design</h4>We used the three regular waves of the SHARE survey to estimate the influence of frailty on health care utilization in 10 European countries. We controlled for the main correlates of frailty and unobserved individual effects.<h4>Results</h4>The frail elderly increase their primary and hospital care utilization before the onset of di ...[more]