Regional variation of care dependency after hip fracture in Germany: A retrospective cohort study using health insurance claims data

• Claudia Schulz ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c.schulz@uke.de

  Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-2126

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• Gisela Büchele,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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• Raphael Simon Peter,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4310-9500

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• Dietrich Rothenbacher,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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• Patrick Roigk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Gerontology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Kilian Rapp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Gerontology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Katrin Christiane Reber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katrin Christiane Reber, Hans-Helmut König

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Hans-Helmut König

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katrin Christiane Reber, Hans-Helmut König

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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