title: Sizing up the sickest.
abstract: It's lurking all the time: Clues about patients prone to costly medical crises are already sitting in your computer system. The past opens a window on the future--if only you can ID the most vulnerable and guard against their getting sick in the first place.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019090:Case Management; D002388:Catastrophic Illness; D002908:Chronic Disease; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019468:Disease Management; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare; D012042:Registries; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States