Identifying heterogeneous health profiles of primary care utilizers and their differential healthcare utilization and mortality - a retrospective cohort study.
Shi YanBenjamin Jun Jie SengYu Heng KwanChuen Seng TanJoanne Hui Min QuahJulian ThumbooLian Leng LowPublished in: BMC family practice (2019)
Primary care utilizers are heterogeneous and can be segmented by latent class analysis into classes with unique disease patterns, healthcare utilizations and all-cause mortality. This information is critical to population level health resource planning and population health policy formulation.