Using the mean (3.01) as a cutoff point, we categorized utilization of maternal health services into two categories.
We categorized utilization based on procedure classifications from the American Dental Association Coding system - Current Dental Terminology (CDT) which were further refined to include more specific codes (See Additional file 1: Appendix D).
When categorized by resource utilization groups, the total number of nursing visits in 2004 was 28,253, with RUG-2 being the most frequent visits type among healthcare facilities (n = 16,247, 57.5%), while RUG-4 contributed the least (n = 1,395, 4.9%) (Table 2).
This index is categorized into six Resource Utilization Bands (RUB) or multi-morbidity levels [ 16, 17].
The frequency of each type of utilization was categorized based on the frequency distribution of the data.
Case management utilization was categorized based on the percentage of quarters (i.e., 3 month periods) during the 15 month study period during which participants reported meeting with their case manager.
Assess and understand the disease burden in various regions by categorizing members into different resource utilization bands (RUBs) using the ACGs.
Medication use during the first cycle was categorized by drug therapeutic class; health care resource utilization during the first cycle was categorized by hospitalization days and outpatient visits.
The results from the literature show that, sustainability factors and performance can be categorized under environment, economic, social, engineering/resource utilization and project management.
The resource utilization for the benchmarks is categorized as IO-bound, CPU-bound, or in between.
