The details of NHIRD data have been described in previous prescription patterns and the utilization analysis of CHM in different diseases like insomnia [ 32], constipation [ 33], chronic hepatitis [ 34], inflammatory bowel disease [ 35], liver cancer [ 36] and allergic rhinitis [ 37].
In terms of health care utilization, the analysis of the Oregon experiment uses hospital administrative data and some of the same variables used in this paper, including total charges and the number of procedures performed.
Numbers of patients admitted to critical care or floor care using the predictive variables were compared with actual physician practice during the study periods as a resource utilization analysis, and the incidence of complications occurring on the floor was compared in both groups as a safety analysis.
Since we intend to focus on service utilization analysis rather than the trend of use of these services, we believe aggregating data over three years provides a better picture of service coverage among MSM in Chongqing.
With the advent of next generation sequencing and its utilization for the analysis of the RNA sequence space, the level of detail on the global architecture of the transcriptome reached a new order of magnitude compared to microarrays.
Characterization of the repertoire of genes involved in signal perception or transduction and in carbohydrate utilization, in conjunction with analysis of the regulation of their expression, is likely to provide key information about the interaction and adaptation of bacteria with their environment [3].
These estimates, which were derived from medical claim data and self-reported resource utilization, are in line with a recent analysis of the US Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project KIDs Inpatient Database.
Each ACG represents a set of patients with a similar health resource utilization, so as to facilitate analysis of the results of the ACGs, which are in turn grouped into six categories or resource utilization bands (RUBs), according to expected utilization of resources, ranging from zero (RUB 0) to very high (RUB 5).
Fig. 1 Principal component analysis of the utilization pattern of substrate carbon sources.
Cost-benefit analysis of the utilization of recombinant human erythropoietin (RHE) in our ICU.
