Total, direct and indirect costs will be calculated by adding costs per category of utilization of healthcare resources.
Because the indices use different algorithms to define categories of PNC utilization, they yield different patterns of PNC use in a population and should not be used interchangeably [ 8].
These characteristics were used to predict health utility, productivity costs and different categories of resource utilization.
We will use the electronic data to assess within-health system categories of resource utilization (e.g., office visits, procedures, surgeries, tests, medications).
Cross tabulations of medical, sociodemographic, and health conditions are presented by categories of ED utilization for calendar year (CY) 2014.
Cross tabulations using CY 2012 as the index year and 2 years of follow-up (the most recent data available) are also presented for annualized ED visits, emergent versus non-emergent conditions, and persistence by categories of ED utilization.
Firstly, relevant categories of resource utilization were identified.
The independent contribution of anemia to costs in COPD was present in all categories of resource utilization.
Table 1 lists the percentage of hospitals in the low, medium, and high categories for utilization of minimally invasive surgery by hospital location, size, teaching status, region, and financial type.
The intra-category change of utilization intensity was assessed for grasslands by using standard yields and forage consumption estimates.
