Predicting elderly at risk of increased future healthcare use: How much does diagnostic information add to prior utilization?

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 267-277

  Rakovski, Carter C ^a   Rosen, Amy K ^b,c   Wang, Fei ^b,c   Berlowitz, Dan R ^b  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Case management; Case mix; Healthcare utilization; Risk adjustment; ROC curves

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX;

EID: 0142061546     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025866331616     Document Type: Article

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