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Integrating Machine Learning with Discrete Event Simulation for Improving Health Referral Processing in a Care Management Setting [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Post-discharge care management coordinates patients' referrals to improve their health after being discharged from hospitals, especially elderly and chronically ill patients. In a care management setting, health referrals are processed by a specialized unit in the managed care organization (MCO), which interacts with many other entities including ...
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Limitations of P-Values and $R^2$ for Stepwise Regression Building: A Fairness Demonstration in Health Policy Risk Adjustment [PDF]
The American Statistician (2019), 2018 Stepwise regression building procedures are commonly used applied statistical tools, despite their well-known drawbacks. While many of their limitations have been widely discussed in the literature, other aspects of the use of individual statistical fit measures, especially in high-dimensional stepwise regression settings, have not.
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Efficiency of antenatal care and childbirth services in selected primary health care facilities in rural Tanzania : a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Cost studies are paramount for demonstrating how resources have been spent and identifying opportunities for more efficient use of resources. The main objective of this study was to assess the actual dimension and distribution of the costs of
Dalaba, Maxwell A +8 more
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Statistical process control to monitor use of a web‐based autoplanning tool
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Purpose To investigate the use of statistical process control (SPC) for quality assurance of an integrated web‐based autoplanning tool, Radiation Planning Assistant (RPA). Methods Automatically generated plans were downloaded and imported into two treatment planning systems (TPSs), RayStation and Eclipse, in which they were recalculated using ...
Hunter Mehrens +5 more
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Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2023 Noncommunicable chronic diseases among the elderly population represent a significant economic burden in China. However, previous disease-related health cost studies lacked representation of older adults and comparability of the burden of multiple ...
Shi-qi Zhao MPH +3 more
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Treatment planning with a 2.5 MV photon beam for radiation therapy
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Purpose The shallow depth of maximum dose and higher dose fall‐off gradient of a 2.5 MV beam along the central axis that is available for imaging on linear accelerators is investigated for treatment of shallow tumors and sparing the organs at risk (OARs) beyond it.
Navid Khaledi +5 more
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Go with the Flow? A Large-Scale Analysis of Health Care Delivery Networks in the United States Using Hodge Theory [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Health care delivery is a collaborative process, requiring close coordination among networks of providers with specialized expertise. Yet in the United States, care is often spread across multiple disconnected providers (e.g., primary care physicians, specialists), leading to fragmented care delivery networks, and contributing to higher costs and lower
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Predicting Health Care Costs Using Evidence Regression
Proceedings, 2019 People’s health care cost prediction is nowadays a valuable tool to improve accountability in health care. In this work, we study if an interpretable method can reach the performance of black-box methods for the problem of predicting health care costs ...
Belisario Panay +5 more
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Disease prevention: saving lives or reducing health care costs? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: Disease prevention has been claimed to reduce health care costs. However, preventing lethal diseases increases life expectancy and, thereby, indirectly increases the demand for health care.
Inge Grootjans-van Kampen +2 more
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Tweedie distributions for fitting semicontinuous health care utilization cost data [PDF]
, 2016 We explore a statistical distribution that can simultaneously model the probability of zero outcome for non-users of health care utilization and continuous costs for users. We compare this distribution to other com- monly used models on example data and show that it fits cost data well and has some appealing properties that provide flexible use.
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