Project: A study of the short-term predictability of the mortality, the morbidity, the invalidity, the hospitalization and the institutionalization in an elderly population.
- project duration
- 01-OCT-93 – 31-DEC-99
- in a sample of men and women aged 55 and older who participated in the BIRNH-study, the predictive value of a series of variables concerning mortality, chronic morbidity, institutionalization and survival without handicap are studied. The study alsoinvestigates the factors that may predict the health care expenditures (as a result of hospitalization and institutionalization) and aims to develop 2 predictive models, respectively concerning survival without handicap and health care economy.