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Table 3 Criteria for the exclusion of AGR participants for study analysis

From: Evaluation of Ambulatory Geriatric Rehabilitation (EAGER): study protocol of a matched cohort study based on claims data

Exclusion criteria

- Age <70 or >95 years in the intervention billing period

Prior to the intervention billing period:

- nursing care >2

- <360 insured days in the four previous billing periods

- living in a nursing home

- hospital costs without out of pocket spending at the last billing period >33.000 €

- hospital costs without out of pocket spending during the four last billing periods ≥44.000 €

- ambulatory costs during the last billing period ≥2.200 €

- ambulatory costs during the four last billing periods ∑ ≥5.500€

- remedy costs without out of pocket spending during the four previous billing periods ≥2.200 €

- costs of aid without out of pocket spending during the four previous billing periods ≥4.000 €

- drug costs without out of pocket spending during the four previous billing periods AGR ≥11.000 €

- total health care costs without out of pocket spending during the four previous billing periods ≥44.000 €

- diagnosed AIDS/HIV in the four previous billing periods

- chemotherapy in the four previous billing periods

- organ transplantation during the four previous billing periods

- dialysis during the four previous billing periods