Health Care Economic Impact of Caring for Geriatric Patients

作者：Rich Preston B^*; Adams Sasha D

来源：Surgical Clinics of North America, 2015, 95(1): 11-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.suc.2014.09.011

• Health care expenditure
• Gross domestic product
• Health care economics
• Third party payer
• Medicare

National health care expenditures constitute a continuously expanding component of the US economy. Health care resources are distributed unequally among the population, and geriatric patients are disproportionately represented. Characterizing this group of individuals that accounts for the largest percentage of US health spending may facilitate the introduction of targeted interventions in key high-impact areas. Changing demographics, an increasing incidence of chronic disease and progressive disability, rapid technological advances, and systemic market failures in the health care sector combine to drive cost. A multidisciplinary approach will become increasingly necessary to balance the delicate relationship between our constrained supply and increasing demand.

• 出版日期2015-2