dc.contributor.author | Ng, SK | |
dc.contributor.author | Yau, KKW | |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, AH | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T15:18:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T15:18:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.date.modified | 2010-08-16T06:47:32Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0895-7177 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/S0895-7177(03)00012-8 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/33468 | |
dc.description.abstract | The modelling of inpatient length of stay (LOS) has important implications in health care studies. Finite mixture distributions are usually used to model the heterogeneous LOS distribution, due to a certain proportion of patients sustaining a longer stay. However, the morbidity data are collected from hospitals, observations clustered within the same hospital are often correlated. The generalized linear mixed model approach is adopted to accomodate the inherent correlation via unobservable random effects. An EM algorithm is developed to obtain residual maximum quasi-likelihood estimation. The proposed hierarchical mixture regression approach enables the identification and assessment of factors influencing the long-stay proportion and the LOS for the long-stay patient subgroup. A neonatal LOS data set is used for illustration. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Pergamon | |
dc.publisher.place | UK | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 365 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 375 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 3-4 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Mathematical and Computer Modelling | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 37 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Applied mathematics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Applied mathematics not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Numerical and computational mathematics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Numerical and computational mathematics not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Theory of computation | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Theory of computation not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4901 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 490199 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4903 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 490399 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4613 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 461399 | |
dc.title | Modelling inpatient length of stay by a hierarchical mixture regression via the EM algorithm | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.date.issued | 2003 | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Ng, Shu Kay Angus | |