A comparison of several regression models for analysing cost of CABG surgery

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2799-2815

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Ghali, William A ^e,f,g   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g Centre for Health and Policy Studies   (Canada)

Author keywords

CABG surgery; Cost analysis; Cost of illness; Predictive models; Regression models; Statistical methodology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CANADA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0042924144     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1442     Document Type: Article

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