Quantifying morbidities by Adjusted Clinical Group system for a Taiwan population: a nationwide analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Adjusted Clinical Group (ACG) system has been used in measuring an individual's and a population's morbidities. Although all required inputs for running the ACG system are readily available, patients' morbidities and their associations to health care utilizations have been rarely studied in Taiwan. Therefore, the objective of this study was using the ACG system to quantify morbidities for Taiwanese population and to examine their relationship to ambulatory utilizations and costs.

Methods

This secondary analysis examined claims data for ambulatory services provided to 2.71 million representative Taiwanese in 2002 and 2003. People were grouped by the ACG system according to age, gender, and all ambulatory diagnosis codes in a given year. The software collapses t

SUBMITTER: Lee WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2492856 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature