Assessing patterns of home and community care service use and client profiles in Australia: A cluster analysis approach using linked data

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 375-387

  Kendig, Hal ^a   Mealing, Nicole ^b,c   Carr, Rachel ^a   Lujic, Sanja ^b   Byles, Julie ^d   Jorm, Louisa ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Community health services; Data linkage; Home care services; Older people; Service systems

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84862682346     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2011.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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