Annals of Family Medicine 3:324-330 (2005)
© 2005 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.352
Predicting Persistently High Primary Care Use
James M. Naessens, MPH1,
Macaran A. Baird, MD, MS2,
Holly K. Van Houten, BA1,
David J. Vanness, PhD3 and
Claudia R. Campbell, PhD4
1 Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Health Care Policy & Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
2 Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn
3 Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc
4 Department of Health Systems Management, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, La

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Figure 1. Distribution of all primary care visits by number of primary care visits in 1997.
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Figure 2. Persistent high primary care use by model score for adult and pediatric patients in 1998.
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Figure 3. Results of applying prediction model scores to different samples (1998 vs 1999).
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