Dieleman, Joseph L.; Baral, Ranju; Johnson, Elizabeth; … - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 30, pp. 1-10
Background: One of the major challenges in estimating health care spending spent on each cause of illness is allocating spending for a health care event to a single cause of illness in the presence of comorbidities. Comorbidities, the secondary diagnoses, are common across many causes of illness...