Identifying High-Cost, High-Risk Patients Using Administrative Databases in Tuscany, Italy

Objective. (1) Assessing the performance of the algorithm in terms of sensitivity and positive predictive value, considering General Practitioners’ (GPs) judgement as benchmark, and (2) describing adverse events (hospitalisation, death, and health services’ consumption) of complex patients compared...

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Main Authors: Irene Bellini, Valentina Barletta, Francesco Profili, Alessandro Bussotti, Irene Severi, Maddalena Isoldi, Maria Bimbi, Paolo Francesconi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9569348