Automated delineation of hospital service areas as a new tool for health care planning.

Alan G HaynesMaria M WertliDrahomir Aujesky

Published in: Health services research (2020)

Hospital service areas are used to analyze differences in use of health care that may indicate underuse and overuse. Our new, fully automated, objective, and reproducible method provides a useful tool for hospital services researchers that will enable them to delineate and update patient-flow-based HSAs.

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