Using weighted hospital service area networks to explore variation in preventable hospitalisation.

ABSTRACT Objectives Markets of health care are created in health services research to attribute variation in performance to characteristics of the health system. Defining patient catchments to capture hospital-level variation poses particular difficulties, because many factors other than geograph...

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Main Authors: Michael Falster, Louisa Jorm, Alastair Leyland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/104