Predicting primary health care costs with measures of morbidity and multimorbidity

"In this paper we investigate the relationship between patients’ primary care costs (consultations, tests, drugs) and their age, gender, deprivation and alternative measures of their morbidity and
multimorbidity."

Keep it simple? Predicting primary health care costs with measures of morbidity and multimorbidity
CHE Research Paper 72
SL Brilleman, H Gravelle, S Hollinghurst, S Purdy, C Salisbury, F Windmeijer
University of York Centre for Health Economics
December 2011

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