Hello. I wonder if you could kindly provide me with more information about how to measure health care utilization.

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That’s so kind of you for the detailed reply.

Measures of health care utilization include hospital admissions, emergency room visits, inpatient days, lengths of stay, outpatient visits, readmissions, and cardiac procedure rates. As an example, the asthma call center study used inpatient admissions, inpatient bed days, emergency room visits, asthma inpatient admissions, asthma inpatient bed days, and asthma emergency room visits. You could try to find this published paper.

Johnson A, Berg G, Fleegler E, et al. A matched-cohort study of selected clinical utilization outcomes for an asthma care support program. Dis Manag 2005;8(3):144-54.