Abstract
Objective: Illustrate Ward's clustering algorithm, an approach that creates small geographic areas based on similarity in the pattern of hospital use. Compare areas resulting from Ward's algorithm using all hospital discharges to 1) areas resulting from the plurality rule, the more widely used approach, and 2) areas resulting from Ward's algorithm using subsets of discharges.
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