Finally, our measures of physician encounters and unique diagnostic testing are intentionally simplistic, and more sophisticated measures focusing on specific diagnostic tools and their utilization (as used by others) might provide improved insights into the nature of the interactions between providers and patients with respect to cancer diagnosis.
The service utilization method: Data on current service utilization serve as a proxy of satisfied demand.
Using the knowledge utilization ladder as a theoretical framework, a short survey was developed around the themes of reception, cognition, conversation, reference, effort, influence, and implementation.
This also highlights the value of perturbations (as used in the galactose utilization data) as a better experimental design to uncover underlying TMs than a study involving a natural biological process, such as the cell cycle.
6) The resulting multi-individual residence probability grid ultimately allowed the calculation of utilization distributions (UD) as a polygon coverage using least-squares cross validation [35], [36].
Variation between Trusts, in terms of overrun rates and inconsistent methodologies used to calculate utilization, impede its meaningful use as a tool that can benchmark theatre performance.
Its adjustment to the environment of Windows 98-Me has simplified its utilization and permits its use as a didactic resource for teaching the process of natural folding.
Healthcare utilization was used as a proxy to measure health status, where a health facility visit in a particular year for curative services of which the NHIS reimburses the healthcare provider is taken as relatively poor health status and no health facility visit is taken as relatively good health status [32].
In the present study, health care utilization was used as a health outcome.
In many studies on health care inequalities, utilization is used as a proxy for access.
The Andersen-Newman framework for health service utilization was used as a conceptual model for the basis of this study.
