Adjusting health spending for the presence of comorbidities: an application to United States national inpatient data

Volume: 7, Issue: 1
Published: Aug 29, 2017
Abstract
One of the major challenges in estimating health care spending spent on each cause of illness is allocating spending for a health care event to a single cause of illness in the presence of comorbidities. Comorbidities, the secondary diagnoses, are common across many causes of illness and often correlate with worse health outcomes and more expensive health care. In this study, we propose a method for measuring the average spending for each cause...
Paper Details
Title
Adjusting health spending for the presence of comorbidities: an application to United States national inpatient data
Published Date
Aug 29, 2017
Volume
7
Issue
1
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