The impact of morbidity trajectories on identifying high-cost cases: Using Taiwan's National Health Insurance as an example

Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 300-307

  Chang, Hsien Yen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

adjusted clinical group (ACG); longitudinal morbidity trajectories; predictive modeling; risk adjustment; Taiwan's National Health Insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940246683     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdt059     Document Type: Article

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