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Modelling prescription behaviour of general practitioners

In: Mathematica Slovaca, vol. 67, no. 3
Šárka Hudecová - Michal Pešta - Daniel Hlubinka

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Year, pages: 2017, 785 - 802
Keywords:
drug expense, generalized linear model, prescribing indicator, structural equation modelling, variable selection
About article:
The health care costs have been rapidly rising in recent years and the public health insurance companies are highly interested in prescription policies of general practitioners. In our contribution, a complex model for prescription behaviour of Belgian general practitioners is built using the structural equation modelling (SEM) framework. The model involves a large number of prescribed medicament groups as well as doctors' and patients' characteristics. As one of the results, a relatively small number of medicament groups, which effectively describe the prescription behaviour of a given doctor, is obtained. These indicators are consequently used in a generalized linear model for predicting the drug expenses per patient. Such a model can be used as a useful guideline for the expenses' assessment of a particular practitioner.
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Hudecová, Š., Pešta, M., Hlubinka, D. 2017. Modelling prescription behaviour of general practitioners. In Mathematica Slovaca, vol. 67, no.3, pp. 785-802. 0139-9918. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2017-0010

APA:
Hudecová, Š., Pešta, M., Hlubinka, D. (2017). Modelling prescription behaviour of general practitioners. Mathematica Slovaca, 67(3), 785-802. 0139-9918. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2017-0010
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Published: 27. 6. 2017