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Use of acute hospital beds does not increase as the population ages: results from a seven year cohort study in Germany

Abstract
Objectives: (1) To compare the number of hospital days used by survivors with those by persons in their last, second last, and third last year of life in relation to age; (2) to analyse lifelong hospital utilisation in relation to life expectancy.

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Publisher BMJ Group
Repository PubMed Central (PMC3 - NLM DTD) (United States)
Keywords Research Report
Type Text
Language English