Erschienen in:
08.06.2018 | Concise Research Reports
Multi- and Single-Year High-Utilizers of Inpatient Services Share Many Clinical and Behavioral Characteristics
verfasst von:
Sara Turbow, MD, MPH, Oludamilola Fakunle, MPH, Ike S. Okosun, PhD, MS, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 10/2018
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Excerpt
Interventions designed to target high-utilizer patients rarely include control groups and cannot account for “regression to the mean,” the observation that many high-utilizers will return to an average amount of healthcare use without any intervention.
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2 Because of the impact that regression to the mean could have on the efficacy of an intervention, we sought to identify differences in medical and social characteristics between high-utilizers whose increased use is limited to 1 year versus those who remain high-utilizers over multiple years. …