Predicting high-cost pediatric patients: derivation and validation of a population-based model

• Published in: Medical care Vol. 53; no. 8; p. 729
• Main Authors: Leininger, Lindsey J, Saloner, Brendan, Wherry, Laura R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.08.2015
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age Factors; Child; Child Health Services - economics; Child Health Services - statistics & numerical data; Child Welfare - economics; Child, Preschool; Chronic Disease - economics; Cohort Studies; Costs and Cost Analysis; Female; Health Care Costs - statistics & numerical data; Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Models, Theoretical; Poverty; Retrospective Studies; United States - epidemiology; United States
• ISSN: 1537-1948
• DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000391

Health care administrators often lack feasible methods to prospectively identify new pediatric patients with high health care needs, precluding the ability to proactively target appropriate population health management programs to these children. To develop and validate a predictive model identifyin...