For instance, we calculated that across-the-board utilization of a restrictive trigger would result in direct blood cost savings of $821 million annually.
To describe variation across US pediatric hospitals in the utilization of resources not recommended for routine use by the American Academy of Pediatrics guideline for infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis and to examine the association between resource utilization and disposition outcomes.
In the following sections, several factors that influence the utilization of psychotropic drugs across countries are presented.
The pattern of drug consumption across townships indicated the highest utilization was of Group C followed by Group A, Group B, Group D, and Group O. (Table 1) Among all groups of drugs, variations in consumption by metropolitan areas were the largest in Hsinchu (COV = 100 to 119%), followed by Tainan (COV = 71 to 106%), rural township (COV = 55 to 102%) and aboriginal area (COV = 38 to 98%).
Table 6 shows the resource utilization across different number of mappers.
Several population-based studies on the PRT utilization across major primary cancer sites by EOL cancer patients had been performed in Ontario and Nova Scotia.
This database included the associated discharge date for index surgery, from which we calculated the 8 weeks' postoperative time window for our analysis and from which we counted the resource utilization across all databases.
Descriptive analyses (frequency, mean, median) were calculated for all covariates across four utilization ranking groups and the overall cohort population.
Dunlop et al. [ 7] found that lower socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with increased use of primary care and lower rates of specialist service utilization, whereas health needs as measured by perceived health status and health condition predicted utilization across the board.
A physiologically based crop production model, ALMANAC, and an econometric model, POLYSYS, were utilized to estimate variability in switchgrass yield and resource utilization across the eastern two‐thirds of the United States.
