ArticleEuropean journal of ageing2023
Relationship of frailty status with health resource use and healthcare costs in the population aged 65 and over in Catalonia.
Article in European journal of ageing, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06897410 (Reforça't), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Reforça't: A Randomized Community Clinical Trial With a Social and Healthcare Approach to Improve Functional Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Cardiac, Respiratory, or Mixed Conditions After Hospital Discharge
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cost of illness analysis of frailty for older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European geriatric medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Societal cost of frailty in Singapore: an overview to the cost of healthcare and informal caregiving for frail older adults by frailty status, a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Emergency department presentations of older patients in Germany: high rates of ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and increased odds of inpatient mortality in patients living with dementia.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Development and testing of an electronic frailty index using Canadian electronic medical record data in primary care.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Undernutrition and Increased Healthcare Demand: Evidence from a Community-Based Longitudinal Panel Study in Singapore.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Frailty reversal and its main determinants: a population-based observational and longitudinal study.Family medicine and community health · 2025Observational
- Frailty assessment in geriatric trauma patients: comparing the predictive value of the full and a condensed version of the Fried frailty phenotype.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Frailty Indicator over the Adult Life Cycle as a Predictor of Healthcare Expenditure and Mortality in the Short to Midterm.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Investigating Frailty, Polypharmacy, Malnutrition, Chronic Conditions, and Quality of Life in Older Adults: Large Population-Based Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among healthcare costs and deficit accumulation.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- The impact of digitally-enabled interventions on frailty and other age-related outcomes - Systematic review and meta-analysis.Digital healthReview
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Abstract
backgroundFrailty is a geriatric syndrome with repercussions on health, disability, and dependency.
objectivesTo assess health resource use and costs attributable to frailty in the aged population.
methodsA population-based observational longitudinal study was performed, with follow-up from January 2018 to December 2019. Data were obtained retrospectively from computerized primary care and hospital medical records. The study population included all inhabitants aged ≥ 65 years ascribed to 3 primary care centres in Barcelona (Spain). Frailty status was established according to the Electronic Screening Index of Frailty. Health costs considered were hospitalizations, emergency visits, outpatient visits, day hospital sessions, and primary care visits. Cost analysis was performed from a public health financing perspective.
resultsFor 9315 included subjects (age 75.4 years, 56% women), frailty prevalence was 12.3%. Mean (SD) healthcare cost in the study period was €1420.19 for robust subjects, €2845.51 for pre-frail subjects, €4200.05 for frail subjects, and €5610.73 for very frail subjects. Independently of age and sex, frailty implies an additional healthcare cost of €1171 per person and year, i.e., 2.25-fold greater for frail compared to non-frail.
conclusionsOur findings underline the economic relevance of frailty in the aged population, with healthcare spending increasing as frailty increases.
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