title: Analysis of recurrent events with non-negligible event duration, with application to assessing hospital utilization.
abstract: In an attempt to provide tools for assessing hospital utilization, this paper extends well-known models for recurrent events to address non-negligible event duration and presents a procedure for estimating the model parameters. The model extension is natural and easy to understand. Asymptotic properties of the associated inferences are derived adapting the well-developed methods based on the counting process formulation. Several specifications of the proposed modeling are illustrated with the hospitalization records of childhood cancer survivors from a health care insurance system that motivated this research. The usefulness and robustness of the proposed approach is demonstrated numerically via simulation.
authors: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. joanh@stat.sfu.ca
authors: X Joan
authors: XJ
authors: Hu
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Lorenzi
authors: John J
authors: JJ
authors: Spinelli
authors: S Celes
authors: SC
authors: Ying
authors: Mary L
authors: ML
authors: McBride
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D055815:Young Adult