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Forecasting Count Data With Varying Dispersion: A Latent‐Variable Approach

Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Count data, such as product sales and disease case counts, are common in business forecasting and many areas of science. Although the Poisson distribution is the best known model for such data, its use is severely limited by its assumption that the dispersion is a fixed function of the mean, which rarely holds in real‐world scenarios.
Easton Huch, Candace Berrett, Mason Ferlic, Kimberly F. Sellers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing rates of primary medication nonadherence and turnaround time among patients at a health system specialty pharmacy compared with external specialty pharmacies. [PDF]

J Manag Care Spec Pharm
Cruchelow KR, Layne S, DeClercq J, Choi L, Zuckerman AD.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Health Influence and Association Analysis of Inpatient Service Under‐Utilization in Older Adults With Multimorbidities: A National Study in China

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
Our analysis of 3636 participants from the nationally representative CHARLS cohort revealed that 8.7% of older adults with multimorbidities declined hospitalization despite medical necessity. This under‐utilization was associated with significant long‐term health deterioration, including reduced self‐rated health, impaired work capacity, and diminished
Yunlian Xue, Zhuomin Huang, Jinqi Ye, Guihao Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biologic dose escalation in inflammatory bowel disease in the United States. [PDF]

J Manag Care Spec Pharm
Chapman C, Vadhariya A, Bires N, Brady BL, Creveling T, Ross R, Evans KA, Panni T, Chan-Diehl FW, McGinnis K.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Association of Chronic Diseases With Herpes Zoster in China: A Nationwide Population‐Based Survey

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
Chronic disease was associated with elevated herpes zoster risk (aOR = 1.84, 95% CI: 1.51–2.24). Among 14 chronic conditions, heart disease showed the strongest association (aOR = 2.91, 95% CI: 2.07–4.10), followed by diabetes (aOR = 2.04, 95% CI: 1.48–2.80) and hypertension (aOR = 1.89, 95% CI: 1.47–2.42).
Wenhui Zhu, Yiqi Xia, Yanran Wang, Zhenyu Shi, Yang Shen, Chengsen Cui, Jinxu Ai, Yemin Yuan, Xin Ye, Dawei Zhu, Ping He   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk of herpes zoster among adults in the United States initiating immunosuppressive therapy: A retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

J Manag Care Spec Pharm
Carrico J, Zhu Y, Steffens A, Gallagher S, DuCharme M, Stempniewicz N, Gatwood J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb, Alexander O. K. Marin, Jes Søgaard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What are the Chances of MACI Approval in the United States? A Deep Dive into the Insurance Authorization Data. [PDF]

Cartilage
Cavendish PA, Milliron EM, Peterson CJ, Sherman SL, Jones DG, Strauss EJ, Flanigan DC.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Information Shocks, Legal Liability and Physician Decisions

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Physician adoption of new information about a medical procedure can affect patient outcomes. Medical malpractice law may influence physician use of such information. We analyze how physician reactions to information shocks regarding vaginal births after cesarean sections (VBACs) in the 1990s were mediated by tort reform and the standard used ...
David Mushinski, Sammy Zahran
wiley   +1 more source

Credit Where Credit Is Due: The Legal Treatment of Early Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions [PDF]

, 2007
DiMascio, Nicholas
core   +1 more source