Identifying subgroups of complex patients with cluster analysis

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Newcomer, Sophia R ^a   Steiner, John F ^a   Bayliss, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALLING; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ULCER; STROKE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA MINING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80052098964     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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