Developing a new predictor of health expenditure: preliminary results from a primary healthcare setting

Risk adjustment is a widely used tool for health expenditure prediction and control. Early approaches for estimating health expenditure were based on patient demographic variables alone, whereas more recent models incorporate patient information, such as chronic medical conditions, clinical diagnoses, and self-reported health status. Many studies have investigated the health expenditure predictive capacity of single demographic, morbidity, or health-related quality of life measures, but the best models prove to be those that include them all.
Source: Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Original Research Source Type: research