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Measures of care fragmentation: Mathematical insights from population genetics.
Health services research - 1 Apr 2020
Rosenberg Noah A, Zulman Donna M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To identify novel properties of health care fragmentation measures, drawing on insights from mathematically equivalent measures of genetic diversity. STUDY DESIGN: We describe mathematical relationships between two measures: (a) Breslau's Usual Provider of Care (UPC), the proportion of care with the most frequently visited provider, analogous to the "frequency of the most frequent allele" at a genetic...
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