Variation in Psychiatric Hospitalisations: A Multiple-Membership Multiple-Classification Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The complexity of variation in healthcare, particularly in mental health, remains poorly understood. However, addressing this issue presents an opportunity to opti-mise the allocation of scarce healthcare resources. To explore this, we investigated the variation in psychiatric care measured as the number of psychiatric hospitalisations. We estimated multiple-membership multiple-classification models utilising Danish register data for 64,694 individuals and their healthcare providers, including 2101 general practitioners, 146 community-based care institutions, 46 hospital departments, and 98 municipalities. This approach recognised that data are not strictly hierarchical. We found that, among individuals attending a single healthcare provider, 67.4% of the total variance in the number of ho

SUBMITTER: Blæhr EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11353323 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature