Profile of hospitalised elderly patients in Belgium—Analysis of factors affecting hospital costs

Introduction: The objectives of this research are (i) to describe the medicoadministrative profiles of inpatients aged 65 and over and (ii) to determine the main hospitalisation-related diseases in order (iii) to assess and identify predictors influencing hospital costs and lengths of stay thanks to data collected in hospital administrative databases. Methods: The study is based on 45,469 hospital stays of inpatients aged 65 and over, with data collected among ten Belgian general hospitals in 2014. We conduct a linear regression in order to isolate factors influencing hospital costs and length... Mehr ...