We measured service utilization and cost from the societal perspective, and included all costs that were actually incurred in the month prior to ART initiation, and for 365 days afterwards.
Access to health care as an outcome is a multi-layered concept to be best approximated by measuring health service utilization and unmet need [ 16– 16].
The research also used the inpatient admission rate for last 12 months and average Length of Stay (LOS) for inpatients as indicators to measure inpatient service utilization.
For this analysis, data on two sets of questions included in the CRAS were used as measures of service utilization.
The more frequently cited measures of service utilization include scope of services used, along with length of stay (on a particular PC service) and location of death [ 4, 13, 24, 25].
We also expect that in those districts where improvements in quality of service delivery in response to the supply-side incentives are most successful outcome measures for service utilization will be most pronounced.
Also, for the actual number of WCH professionals, we acquired reliable routine data from each health institution and all these data resources allowed a realistic and objective measure of service utilization.
A study of 6,465 participants enrolled in a cluster randomized controlled clinical trial examined the effects of usual methods of case-mix adjustment including measures of demographic variables, comorbidity scores, and measures of health service utilization to predict death, institutionalization or hospitalization.
To analyze latent class membership and use of health services (aim 2), after assigning respondents to barrier classes, we used multiple logistic regression (STATA version 11.0; College Station, TX) to assess the association between class membership and measures of health service utilization and unmet medical needs.
Assess the predictive validity of commonly used measures of multimorbidity in relation to a health outcome (mortality) and a measure of health service utilization (consultation rate).
