Optimal frequency for measuring health care resource utilization in Parkinson's disease using participant recall: The FS-TOO resource utilization substudy

Measuring Resource Utilization

A variety of methods may be used to obtain costing data. Although administrative data are most commonly used, the data available in these datasets are often limited. An alternative method of obtaining costing is through self-reported questionnaires. Currently, there are no systematic reviews that summarize self-reported resource utilization instruments from the published literature.The aim of t...

COPD exacerbation frequency and its association with health care resource utilization and costs

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations account for a substantial proportion of COPD-related costs. OBJECTIVE To describe COPD exacerbation patterns and assess the association between exacerbation frequency and health care resource utilization (HCRU) and costs in patients with COPD in a Medicare population. METHODS A retrospective cohort study utilizing data fr...

Reconciling resource utilization and resource selection functions.

1. Analyses based on utilization distributions (UDs) have been ubiquitous in animal space use studies, largely because they are computationally straightforward and relatively easy to employ. Conventional applications of resource utilization functions (RUFs) suggest that estimates of UDs can be used as response variables in a regression involving spatial covariates of interest. 2. It has been cl...

The Coefficient of Resource Utilization

Analysis of Resource Selection Using Utilization Distributions

Often resource selection functions (RSFs) are developed by comparing resource attributes of used sites to unused or available ones. We present alternative approaches to the analysis of resource selection based on the utilization distribution (UD). Our objectives are to describe the rationale for estimation of RSFs based on UDs, offer advice about computing UDs and RSFs, and illustrate their use...