The Effect of Geographic Units of Analysis on Measuring Geographic Variation in Medical Services Utilization

• Main Authors: Agnus M. Kim (Author), Jong Heon Park (Author), Sungchan Kang (Author), Kyosang Hwang (Author), Taesik Lee (Author), Yoon Kim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society for Preventive Medicine, 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the effect of geographic units of analysis on measuring geographic variation in medical services utilization. For this purpose, we compared geographic variations in the rates of eight major procedures in administrative units (districts) and new areal units organized...