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As health plans assume financial risk for providing health care services, effectively managing the health of a population remains one of the toughest challenges. This article shows how risk assessment methods can be used to measure disease burden in the full population and to discriminate levels of future health care needs within specific disease cohorts. We also examine and compare the predictive power of claims-based models within a diabetic cohort.
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Zhao, Y., Ash, A.S., Ellis, R.P. et al. Disease Burden Profiles: An Emerging Tool for Managing Managed Care. Health Care Management Science 5, 211–219 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019711617120
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