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Modeling count data for health care utilization: an empirical study of outpatient visits among Vietnamese older people.

Duc Dung LeRoberto Leon GonzalezJoseph Upile Matola
Published in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2021)
The high degree of skewness and dispersion that typically characterizes healthcare utilization data affects the appropriateness of the econometric models that should be used in modeling such data. In the case of Vietnamese older people, our study findings suggest that hurdle negative binomial models should be used in the modeling of healthcare utilization given that the data-generating process reflects two different decision-making processes.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • electronic health record
  • big data
  • decision making
  • data analysis