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Table 3 Mean 3-month health care costs in € (2009 Values) by frailty status

From: Associations of frailty with health care costs – results of the ESTHER cohort study

Frailty-Index

N

Total (SD)

Outpatient (SD)

Inpatient (SD)

Nursing care (SD)

Pharmaceuticals (SD)

Non-frail (0)

876

642 (1546)

243 (500)

268 (1362)

2 (35)

128 (218)

Pre-frail (1)

1034

733 (1628)

281 (567)

286 (1396)

11 (196)

154 (278)

Pre-frail (2)

472

1014 (2322)

270 (380)

492 (2149)

30 (342)

221 (286)

Frail (3)

142

1616 (4002)

345 (718)

747 (3082)

262 (1237)

263 (246)

Frail (4&5)

65

3659 (5918)

483 (777)

2104 (5268)

672 (1894)

400 (679)

Low physical activity

      

 - yes

520

1283 (2919)

291 (526)

575 (2524)

151 (874)

266 (397)

 - no

2078

771 (1963)

270 (534)

341 (1676)

15 (288)

145 (238)

Exhaustion

      

 - yes

308

1853 (4189)

367 (503)

990 (3520)

232 (1160)

265 (406)

 - no

2290

742 (1725)

263 (263)

307 (1512)

16 (256)

156 (258)

Weight loss

      

 - yes

110

2435 (4254)

377 (639)

1762 (3969)

39 (257)

256 (574)

 - no

2479

805 (2036)

270 (527)

328 (1708)

42 (479)

166 (261)

Slowness

      

 - yes

933

1099 (2815)

282 (488)

509 (2390)

103 (761)

206 (293)

 - no

1665

747 (1746)

271 (556)

320 (1515)

7 (137)

149 (273)

Weakness

      

 - yes

810

1063 (2834)

315 (671)

474 (2320)

93 (755)

180 (283)

 - no

1788

788 (1831)

257 (456)

349 (1639)

18 (250)

164 (279)

All

2598

874 (2197)

275 (532)

388 (1878)

42 (471)

169 (282)

  1. SD Standard deviation