Utilization of health services as events: an exploratory study
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1Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en santé, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Québec.
Health Services Research
|June 1, 1988
Abstract:
The concept of propensity to use ambulatory care is defined as the probability that a utilization occurs in a very small interval of time, given that no utilization has been observed before. With this definition of utilization, survival analysis can be used to assess the effect of a set of predictors on utilization. The results of this analysis are compared with the results of the prediction of utilization by the same set using a logistic regression model and a linear regression model.