Abstract
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021.
Highlights
Care groups are increasingly used for identifying practice variation, which has been considered as a useful indicator for unnecessary -or poor quality of care
This study aimed to investigate if care groups for diabetes patients differ with regard to curative care costs and diabetes specific hospital-based specialist care costs by using two methods
We analyzed claim data from 24 insurers obtained from Vektis
Summary
October 2013 Publisher: Igitur publishing URL: http://www.ijic.org How to measure variation in health care costs between care groups for diabetes patients? Claudia C.M. Molema, Researcher, National Institute for Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
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