Relaxing the classical assumptions on static task sets with fixed periods and deadlines can give higher resource utilisation and better performance.
Almost half of all patients with Parkinson's disease in this study were non-compliant with their prescribed medication, with non-compliance associated with higher resource utilisation and greater direct all-cause healthcare mean costs.
Smoking is associated with high healthcare resource utilisation and cost to society.
The fact that discharges to extended care facilities and inpatient deaths were associated with higher inpatient resource utilisation is consistent with the notion that patients who are at highest risk for mortality consume the greatest portion of the healthcare resources.
ACG: Adjusted clinical groups; CI: Confidence interval; COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; EDC: Expanded diagnosis clusters; EMR: Electronic medical record; FP: Family physician; GOLD: Global strategy for diagnosis, management, and prevention of COPD; HP/HI: High prevalence/ high impact; RUB: Resource utilisation bands.
Negative skewness in the data distribution indicated that many participants had a low utilisation rate, and only a few participants had a high intensity of resource utilisation (table 5).
These are the top-ranked countries in the Rail Liberalisation Index 2011 [14]; their success can be partly attributed to the reformed market environment - with new private companies entering the market and competing with the incumbent - as well as the pressure on the incumbent railways to be more efficient, through higher asset and human resource utilisation.
As De Lusignan et al 23 has demonstrated, people with CMDs have a higher rate of healthcare resource utilisation than those without CMDs, and IAPT referral can actively reduce this along with a reduction in sickness reporting, as was intended by the programme.
Resource utilisation was higher for patients with coagulopathy who received significantly more platelet transfusions over the 3-day period (80 versus 49 units; p = 0.009) and who demonstrated a trend toward increased fresh frozen plasma requirements (p = 0.059).
This analysis indicates that elevated levels of iPTH, phosphate, and (to a lesser extent) total calcium in patients with ESRD are associated with a greater intensity of healthcare resource utilisation and higher direct medical costs in comparison with patients whose levels are within the K/DOQI target ranges.
