Adjusting health spending for the presence of comorbidities: an application to United States national inpatient data
Abstract Background One of the major challenges in estimating health care spending spent on each cause of illness is allocating spending for a health care event to a single cause of illness in the presence of comorbidities. Comorbidities, the secondary diagnoses, are common across many causes of ill...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-08-01
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Series: | Health Economics Review |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13561-017-0166-2 |