Researchers in China and the United States have developed a predictive model capable of forecasting which patients will account for either small or large proportions of healthcare resource utilization ...

Patients' views on delayed diagnosis in cancer. Background: A wide variation in the utilization rates of chemotherapy exists in cancer care in Australia and internationally. We developed an ...

Among HIV-positive Medicaid patients with comorbid medical and psychiatric disorders, there was increased outpatient service utilization, yet relative cost savings, for patients who were treated in ...

Use rates for inpatient and certain hospital outpatient services are declining in many areas of the country, reflecting fundamental change brought by the new business model. Importantly, as evidenced ...

Objectives. The purpose of this article is to first conceptualize health services utilization behavior as event counts. Based on this concept and behavioral theory, the author presents the Generalized ...