Health care expenditure in the last five years of life is driven by morbidity, not age: A national study of spending trajectories in Danish decedents over age 65

• Anne Vinkel Hansen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aih@dst.dk

  Affiliations Data Science Lab, Statistics Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4523-3521

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• Laust Hvas Mortensen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Data Science Lab, Statistics Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Stella Trompet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Rudi Westendorp

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Data Science Lab, Statistics Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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