Association between fee-for-service expenditures and morbidity burden in primary care

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 599-610

  Kristensen, Troels ^a,b   Olsen, Kim Rose ^a,b   Schroll, Henrik ^c   Thomsen, Janus Laust ^b,c   Halling, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Danish Quality Unit of General Practice   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Expenditure variation; Fee for services (FFS); General practice; Resource utilisation band (RUB); The Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG ) system

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSULTATION; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MORBIDITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; AGE; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MORBIDITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84905572331     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: 16187601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-013-0499-7     Document Type: Article

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