title: Utilization of health services as events: an exploratory study.
abstract: The concept of propensity to use ambulatory care is defined as the probability that a utilization occurs in a very small interval of time, given that no utilization has been observed before. With this definition of utilization, survival analysis can be used to assess the effect of a set of predictors on utilization. The results of this analysis are compared with the results of the prediction of utilization by the same set using a logistic regression model and a linear regression model.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en santé, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Québec.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Béland
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011336:Probability; D011792:Quebec; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013997:Time Factors