Impact of depression on health care utilization and costs among multimorbid patients--from the MultiCare Cohort Study.

Impact of depression on health care utilization and costs among multimorbid patients--from the MultiCare Cohort Study.

<h4>Objective</h4>The objective of this study was to describe and analyze the effects of depression on health care utilization and costs in a sample of multimorbid elderly patients.<h4>Method</h4>This cross-sectional analysis used data of a prospective cohort study, consistin...

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Main Authors: Jens-Oliver Bock, Melanie Luppa, Christian Brettschneider, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Horst Bickel, Angela Fuchs, Jochen Gensichen, Wolfgang Maier, Karola Mergenthal, Ingmar Schäfer, Gerhard Schön, Siegfried Weyerer, Birgitt Wiese, Hendrik van den Bussche, Martin Scherer, Hans-Helmut König
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24638040/pdf/?tool=EBI

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