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SOCIAL NETWORK RESEARCH IN HEALTH COULD OPEN THE DOOR FOR SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS

The health industry consumes vast amounts of money and resources and is seen as a “black-hole” in many Government budgets. A ground breaking study using new science could save the industry millions and point the way for future research. Dr Shahadat Uddin CMCRC PhD Graduate Lecturer, U. Sydney Shahadat Uddin is a graduate of the

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CASE-MIX BASED PEER CLUSTERING

We consider the problem of clustering hospitals based on their case-mix distributions. Hospitals belong to the same cluster if they offer the same mix of services and have similar demand for those services. The cluster labels can be used to control for case-mix in hospital level analyses. Methods: We obtained distributions of the 770 AR-DRGv7.0 for

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