Assessing the Regularity and Predictability of the Age-Trajectories of Healthcare Utilization

This research examines the viability of a need-based approach that models the age-trajectories of healthcare utilization. We propose a fundamentally different way of treating age in modeling healthcare use. Rather than treating age as a need indicator, we refocus modeling efforts to predicting the a...

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Main Author: Turnbull, Margaret
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15441