Use and cost of hospital services according to the level of frailty (persons who accessed hospital services at least once during the first year of follow-up).

Hospital admission (HA) cost per single or multiple hospital admissions, according to the level of frailty.

Baseline general characteristics of the study population*.

Outcome variable: total UHSs’ costs (386 individuals, adjusted R2).

BackgroundThe increasing burden of chronic diseases associated with the ageing of the European population constitutes one of the main challenges for the welfare systems in...

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the 402 probable or confirmed cases.

BackgroundInequalities in health among groups of various socio-economic status (as measured by education, occupation, and income) constitute one of the main challenges for...

Hospital care services by level of frailty.

Years 2001–2012.

Distribution of characteristics in patients with incident STEMI (mean and SD for age) by year at event.

Association between outcomes and educational level at the beginning and end of the study period (2012 and 2015).