These figures compare broadly to estimates of utilization detected in other investigations into theatre time usage across a variety of specialties in the United Kingdom [ 19- 22].
These measures of clinical outcome are then combined with estimates of utilization and cost (of pharmacotherapy and, optionally, healthcare services) to calculate the cost-effectiveness of the treatments considered.
Finally, to test our assumption that utilization would be related to the indication for admission, mean estimates of utilization measures and rates of high intensity events were compared between admission indication categories.
Estimates of utilization of HEWs for sick children range from 4% to 17% for children sick in the previous 2 weeks, with large variation between regions and by illness.
Expected utilization and associated costs of care were then calculated as the sum of the Kaplan-Meier estimates of the probability of survival to the beginning of each interval multiplied by corresponding estimates of utilization and costs respectively during the interval conditional on survival to the beginning of the interval [ 18].
The objective of the NHAMCS is to provide a population-level estimate of the utilization of outpatient services in the United States, therefore, some patient level data, such as laboratory results, are not always available.
To derive an estimate of healthcare utilization and costs due to medical visits and work loss (in 2012 dollars) attributable solely to resistance to penicillin, erythromycin and fluoroquinolones, we analyzed model outputs assuming only the existence of susceptible strains and calculating the resulting differences in cost and utilization.
While the data cannot fully answer if this decline is attributed to lower client loyalty or to a broadening of the client base, the data collection format does allow a rough estimate of weekly utilization (since each sample includes all clients for a particular week).
The estimated efficiency of utilization of digestible EAA for milk protein synthesis was generally greater for the DMP diets compared with AMP.
Instead, our data show that the estimated probability of utilization declined with advancing age group.
