[What perceptions do older people have of medical costs?].

Rev Med Suisse

Centre hospitalier du Chablais, Centre de gériatrie du Bas-Valais, Clinique St-Amé, 1890 St Maurice.

Published: August 2007

This prospective study shows key elements by grouping the opinion of 200 hospitalized patients with an average age of 78 that have conserved their cognitive faculties. 57.5% of them think that medical cost of their age group is too high for the collectivity, and brings 15% of them to hesitate before consulting their doctor. What preocupies the most is that 15 patients (7.5%) renonce due to the eventual cost of the consultation, most of them (73.35%) between 1 and 7 days, and more than one quarter (26.65%) for more than a month.

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