Regional health care planning: a methodology to cluster facilities using community utilization patterns

BACKGROUND: Community-based health care planning and regulation necessitates grouping facilities and areal units into regions of similar health care use. Limited research has explored the methodologies used in creating these regions. We offer a new methodology that clusters facilities based on simil...

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Autores principales: Delamater, Paul L, Shortridge, Ashton M, Messina, Joseph P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23964905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-333