Variability in prescription drug expenditures explained by adjusted clinical groups (ACG) case-mix: A cross-sectional study of patient electronic records in primary care
Aguado A, Guinó E, Mukherjee B, Sicras A, Serrat J, Acedo M, Ferro J, Moreno V. Variability in prescription drug expenditures explained by adjusted clinical groups (ACG) case-mix: A cross-sectional study of patient electronic records in primary care. BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8: 53. PMID: 18318912, PMCID: PMC2292169, DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-53.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrescription quality indexPatient electronic recordsCase-mixPhysician-centeredElectronic recordsPharmacy costsPrimary care centersEpisode of careCase-mix adjustmentQuality of prescriptionsCost of prescriptionsCross-sectional studyQuality IndexIncreased prescription costsTwo-part modelDrug expendituresFamily physiciansProfile physiciansLinear mixed modelsPrescription costsProportion of variancePrescription drug expendituresPhysician expendituresLogistic regressionMultilevel structure of data