What is it about?
A running 12-month total of deaths in the three countries England, Scotland and Wales demonstrate subtle differences in step-up and step-down behavior which defy current explanations.
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Why is it important?
Costs are driven by deaths simply because the bulk of a persons health care utilization occurs in the last year of life
Perspectives
Part of an extended series investigating why health care costs are behaving in unexpected ways, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Trends in death and end-of-life costs in the UK, British Journal of Healthcare Management, June 2014, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2014.20.6.298.
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