Dataset Information

Exploration of health care utilization, social care utilization and costs for individuals discharged from inpatient geriatric care in Sweden - a registry data study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals receiving geriatric care are often frail and afflicted with multiple chronic conditions demanding care from several medical disciplines, and from several different care providing units across the health systems.

Objective

To explore the six-month service utilization and direct costs attributed to individuals receiving geriatric inpatient care.

Methods

Health care utilization- in terms of inpatient care, outpatient visits with different health care professions- and social care utilization- in terms of social services, and stay at residential care facility (RCF)- were quantified based on registry data, for a cohort admitted to geriatric inpatient care in Stockholm, Sweden during 2016.