Estimating Health Cost Repartition Among Diseases in the Presence of Multimorbidity

We consider the nontrivial problem of estimating the health cost repartition among different diseases in the common case where the patients may have multiple diseases. To tackle this problem, we propose to use an iterative proportional repartition (IPR) algorithm, a nonparametric method which is sim...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology
Main Authors: Valentin Rousson PhD, Jean-Benoît Rossel PhD, Yves Eggli MD, MA, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-11-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2333392819891005